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...said, "Mr. Prime Minister, you must understand that the proper U.S. response to your Soviet ABM system is an expansion of our offensive force. If we had the right number of offensive weapons to maintain a deterrent before you put your defenses in, then, to maintain the same degree of deterrence in the face of your defense, we must strengthen our offense. Deployment of a Soviet ABM system will lead to an escalation of the arms race. That's not good for either...
Kosygin was furious. The blood rushed to his face, he pounded on the table, and he said, "Defense is moral; offense is immoral!" That was essentially the end of the discussion. The Soviet Union was by no means ready at that time to discuss an agreement banning defensive systems...
...explosive growth in the number of Soviet missile warheads--which is pointed to by those who say, "We build, they build; we stop, they build"--occurred between 1975 and 1980. During that period the Soviets more than doubled the number of their missile warheads, from 2,500 to 5,500. It was in part a delayed response to our MIRV decision of five years before. And it still left us in 1980 with a substantial numerical superiority...
Since 1980 the Soviet buildup has continued. Today the number of warheads (missiles plus bombs) in the U.S. and Soviet strategic forces is approximately equal. For 35 years, from 1950 to 1985, the Soviets lived with numerical inferiority, although "parity" in operational terms has existed since at least October 1962. (During a recent visit to the Soviet Union, I was asked by several political and scientific leaders to define nuclear parity. I replied that parity exists when each side is deterred from initiating a strategic strike by the recognition that such an attack would be followed by a retaliatory strike...
LaRouche, who warned that he would not "submit passively to an arrest," apparently blames his troubles on the Communists: a spokesman claimed Soviet Communist Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev had "demanded the head of LaRouche on a platter" prior to the Iceland minisummit. But his real adversaries are closer to home. The Leesburg raid was almost a community effort: residents, wary of the paranoid strangers in town, provided furtive assistance to investigators, taking down auto-license numbers of LaRouche followers and reporting suspicious behavior. LaRouche has "alienated a lot of the local people," said a police officer. "He called two elderly...