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3. Soviet “New Thinking” About International Security
3. Soviet “New Thinking” About International Security
Pages 28-35
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I have a proposal to offer as testimony that the Cold War is over. This proposal is to rename Sakharov Plaza the "Plaza of People's Deputy Sakharov." There is a general consensus that the Cold War, even if it is over now, has left us with a tremendous overabundance of weapons—a tremendous "overarming." A couple of decades ago we introduced the term "overkiD" while speaking about strategic nuclear weapons.
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Only with a coherent global approach to reduce overarming can we achieve real success. The "new thinking" promoted by General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev during his first four years in power is now evolving toward the formulation of such a global system of common, or mutual, security a system that would provide a chance for the coherent development of future military configurations based on a drastic reduction of overarming.
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There is a strong imbalance in the number of tanks. One of the most important arguments on the Soviet side is that this substantial advantage for the Warsaw Treaty Organization is compensated for by two factors: part by NATO's advantage in strike aircraft and strike helicopters, and, in major part, by a strong NATO advantage in naval forces, including naval forces currently deployed in and near Europe.
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I hope they wild be published within the next Wee or four months, maybe even earlier.2 Table IT indicates corresponding figures related to European conventional forces. I took them from the long document issued by the Warsaw Treaty Organization in January 1989 in response to an identical NATO document published in late November 1988.
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The conventional forces reduction talks now under way in Europe should contribute a lot to the development of a common formula for, and a common definition of, conventional stability. Working from these two important conceptual understandings- strategic nuclear stability and conventional stability—we can try to develop a joint approach to coherent arms reduction in both spheres.
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There are a few preliminary ideas about how to define reasonable sufficiency. In the area of strategic nuclear weapons, there is a tentative desire to compare reasonable sufficiency with the older concept of mini
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There is a lot of discussion on the defensive defense posture for land-based forces, but very little discussion for naval forces. So a first idea would be, for example, to start with Hose components of naval forces that could be considered offensive such as aircraft carriers, ships that can deliver weapons, and so on.
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On our side there has also been an important change: a decreased perception of the American military threat. For example, almost no candidate for People's Deputy put forward slogans calving for us to support a military buildup to counter the American threat.
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