Word: sherwin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Union would act on the assumption that the United States would not use these weapons even if the American president said we wouldn't. So I think they have and will continue to have a deterrent effect by their very presence....One of the things that Marty Sherwin said seemed to me a very provocative suggestion--that...control of nuclear weapons depended on the international climate and the international climate would be improved if West Germany, at least if I understand it correctly, moved away from a close association with the United States and served as more...
...Sherwin: Could I just clarify. I don't think that the issue of Germany is zero-sum gain, that is to say that every time they make an extension towards the Soviet Union we lose out. They always will in the foreseeable future be part of a Western alliance. I simply think we should not stand between their efforts to reach a hand to the east...
...Sherwin: I totally agree with that. If I believe that the system that existed now would in fact maintain peace for 6000 years. I would up you six, and say 12. I mean, why not. I mean, what we're all concerned with is peace, so it's basically our assumptions that are at odds about the structure of things...
...Sherwin: Could I just ask you, Michael, to define what you mean by management and what you mean by structural changes in international relations...
...Sherwin: The major point that I would make about the...missed opportunity that I point out specifically during the war--Niels Bohr's suggestion to Roosevelt and Churchill that they approach Stalin with an assurance that nuclear weapons would not be used against the Soviet Union after the war and that what we want to do is get together and start building a plan for the international control of atomic energy...