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...amendments to the Ford defense budget promise certain reductions, they are achieved primarily by stretching out purchases of new weapons systems like the B-1 and the M-X rather than aiming for permanent reductions. If these "reductions" are meant as signals to the Soviet Union of American restraint, they are feeble ones, hardly the sort of unilateral initiative envisioned in Warnke's earlier statements...
SECOND, WARNKE HAS advocated unilateral restraint in the development of new weapons that could destabilize the current equilibrium between the two superpowers. This position seems the product of an apparent dissatisfaction with the value of existing arms control agreements, which in Warnke's opinion became mere springboards for further defense spending. Weapons built as "bargaining chips" for arms control negotiations have a way of surviving, and they seem to encourage reciprocal Soviet developments rather than the victory of reason at the conference table. Warnke makes a strong case for unilateral restraint, arguing that our security may often be increased...
...proposals in his time. In the spring 1975 issue of Foreign Policy, for instance, he urged that the U.S. temporarily suspend further development of some of its advanced weapons in order to set an example the Soviets could emulate. His assumption that "the chances are good that highly advertised restraint on our part will be reciprocated" by the Russians can be challenged, since they failed to respond in kind to the U.S. reduction in real military spending from...
Initial Confusion. Carter's call for a comprehensive nuclear test ban will be even harder to achieve than SALT. Since 1963, the U.S., the U.S.S.R. and Britain have observed a ban on atmospheric explosions and have detonated all their atomic devices underground-a restraint conspicuously ignored by France and China (India tested its nuclear explosive underground). Carter now wants to extend the 1963 ban to subterranean testing. The U.S. and the Soviet Union have already negotiated two partial underground bans. An accord signed in mid-1974 bars underground nuclear blasts greater than the equivalent of 150 kilotons...
...creating programs, focused on areas of chronic unemployment, he has not yet determined the size of the package. But it will probably be about $20 billion, mostly in tax cuts for individuals. He also may invite corporate and labor leaders to the White House and urge voluntary restraint, without setting numerical guidelines, on wage and price increases...