Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site randvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!randvax!david From: david@randvax.UUCP (David Shlapak) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Controlling Nuclear Weapons Message-ID: <2163@randvax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 03:47:17 EST Article-I.D.: randvax.2163 Posted: Sun Dec 2 03:47:17 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 11:58:55 EST References: <1133@drusd.UUCP> <2082@randvax.UUCP> Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica Lines: 24 > Please consider that the history of > the arms race shows that everytime *we* increase our weapons that the > Soviets will also increase theirs. You will thus have to argue that > allowing the other side to increase their weapons with no restraints > is better than even rudimentary restraints which could ( and have) > reduce the level of Soviet nuclear weapons aimed in our direction. > tim sevener whuxl!orb To quote Harold Brown on the peculiar dynamic of this "arms race:" When we build, the Soviets build. When we stop building, the Soviets build. Virtually every study I've read concerning the effects of American strategic behavior (both arms-building and arms-controlling) on Soviet behavior comes to the same conclusion: no causal linkage can plausibly be inferred. .. Yes, Tim, awareness of the "history of the arms race" is useful. You might consider acquiring some... Sheesh! --- das