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...serious work in Cambridge directly related to the development of nuclear weaponry takes place at Draper Laboratories, which only helps devise the guidance systems for certain missiles. Nuclear bombs are not built within city limits: no explosive or radioactive materials are used. Supporters counter that Cambridge will be a safer place to live because it somehow would be lowered on the Soviet hit list--specious logic since Cambridge would still be in the backyard of hi-tech Boston...
...Connor said a law such as Nuclear Free Cambridge could wipe out Draper and discourage new high-tech companies from locating here Innumerable research projects at MIT and Harvard would suffer. The proposal could ban research even on how to make weapons safer, he added...
...troops stayed in Beirut long enough, some would die? The responsibility for their deaths belongs as much to those who sent them to Lebanon as to their murderers in Beirut. Our boys did not die for their country; neither have their deaths made the world one iota safer for democracy. They died to satisfy the machismo of a government ignorant of the lessons of history and apathetic to the welfare of its citizens...
...keeps the missile alive at all. America should cut its losses now, stop work on the giant missile, and move toward-those systems that enhance deterrence--small, mobile missiles and submarines. Of course, reduction of nuclear weapons is a desirable goal, but it can be done in much better, safer ways. "Build-down" should be recognized as a confused smokescreen for all the parties in Washington, and should be discarded before it distorts the real issues of deterrence and peace...
...even with a conservative, gun-toting government in power, the United States is not nearly as big a threat as the Soviet Union. We will not make the world significantly safer by appeasing the Soviets. Certainly, though, a more rational and unified foreign policy than we have now would help...