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8. Summary Remarks
Pages 72-78

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From page 72...
... A great deal has happened in the international security arena since we began this series of seminars in 1984. Among those things that have happened are Star Wars, Reykjavik, START, the INF Treaty, a new U.S.
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From page 73...
... Of course, the steps that we are talking about START, conventions force reductions, and so on—are vitally important and highly desirable. But the implied threat of this obscene number of nuclear weapons remains terrifying, as long as there is even a tiny chance of their being used.
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From page 74...
... But it would seem the very opportunity to revive He idea in light of the Gorbachev initiatives. Professor SagUeev said a number of very important things this moming, raising the question of how we move away from this regime of overarming that has been dominant in the United States and the Soviet Union for so long.
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From page 75...
... Longrange ballistic missiles, small quiet submarines, chemical weapons production facilities, Stinger-like antiaircraft missiles, high-performance aircraft, and so on are being made by the industrial nations for each other and for their less well-developed friends who like to posture before real or imagined enemies. There is also a continuing effort in parts of the lesser developed countries to acquire that most macho of possessions, nuclear weapons.
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From page 76...
... The current military forces in Europe are the product of almost 45 years of old thinking, based on ideological and political differences between NATO and the Warsaw Pact nations and, most particularly, between the United States and the Soviet Union. Aimed at preventing Soviet domination of Europe on the one hand and countering Western hostility toward Communism and threats of interference with Soviet internal affairs on the other hand, the two sides quickly built up military establishments designed to deter each other in Europe.
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From page 77...
... Compared with nuclear weapons, as Professor Meselson has told us, chemical weapons are sort of "greasy kid's stuff." But under the right circumstances they can be quite devastating, and, of course, they are
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From page 78...
... But as the United States and the USSR make progress toward START, and perhaps movement toward a comprehensive test ban, they will be in a better moral position to urge smaller nations to eschew nuclear weapons and engage their cooperation in keeping them out of the possession of the truly irresponsible. Professor Doty noted that the world is spending about $1 trildion a year on arms.
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