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Psychotherapy Research: The Great Compromiss--Dr. Irene Elkin Waskow; Lyman Room, Longfellow Hall...
...Waskow said that the "mix" of counter-force theory (aimed at destroying Soviet bases) and deterrence, presently entertained by U.S. strategists, might have led to nuclear war over the Berlin crisis...
Trying to establish the reciprocal nature of every cold war move, Waskow cited the Soviet Sputnik as an, event that forced the U.S. to divert funds and energy from strictly military research to space projects. He suggested that a billion dollars worth of American aid to India would guarantee a mirror-response because the Russians are already committed to competing for influence there...
...Both Waskow and Col. William R. Kintner of the Foreign Policy Research Institute thought that American military strategy should establish conditions in which some form of political "victory" would be possible. Hughes took issue with this. "Not winning but ending the cold war should be the first goal," he said...
Hoffmann thought Hughes too anxious to "leap into the millennium," and Waskow too anxious to believe in "the seesaw metaphor." Figuring that the Soviet Union should be expected to act in its military self-interest. Hoffmann urged the continuation of America's deterrent posture and placed his faith in the self-restraint of strategists on both sides...