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...Force One landed at Orly Airport near Paris a few minutes before midnight on a rainy Wednesday. Nancy held an umbrella over the President as they trod a soggy red carpet, to be greeted by French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson. It was not a night for ceremony. The Reagans sped off to the residence of U.S. Ambassador Evan Galbraith to recuperate from jet lag and prepare for the first serious task: cementing Reagan's friendship with French President François Mitterrand, his host at the Versailles summit...
...would say, point two, that in terms of recommendations, that it is the extended-nuclear umbrella that we have back away from....It's getting too dangerous. The weapons are getting too sophisticated. There are too many of them. They're being used to counter too many situations, and we have to begin to move back to a position of nuclear weapons for deterrence of nuclear war. And I think that a no-first use approach is a good step. Not because that's going to solve anything; in fact, it clearly will create, temporarily, some other problems...
...peace in my own view is that the United States has had the military force to deter the Soviet Union for attack--either with conventional or nuclear weapons, and because, in part, Germany has been divided and Japan has been militarily weak and under the American nuclear umbrella. It may be that there are other worlds that are better than this world, but I don't think we can get from here to there without running a large risk of major hostilities....On foregin affairs, one can hypothesize four consequences of the no-first use doctrine...
...extended-nuclear umbrella that we have to back away from....It's getting too dangerous. The weapons are getting too sophisticated. There are too many of them. They're being used to counter too many situations, and we have to begin to move back to a position of nuclear weapons for deterrence of nuclear war. And I think that a no-first use approach is a good step....I would certainly be for taking that step unilaterally. In other words, a general point that I would make is that arms control and the general political situation are totally linked...
...Regan force build-up. I think you have to approach that by asking what is it that you want from your nuclear weapons. And clearly you want them to provide deterrence, but you want more from them than that. You want them to be able to support the umbrella which you extend over allies such as Europe and Japan, and this is called extended deterrence. And you do want them occasionally to bolster your diplomacy. And I think that's becoming more and more difficult in a world of party....I'd want to see nuclear forces which are relatively...