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From: david@randvax.UUCP (David Shlapak)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Controlling Nuclear Weapons
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Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 03:47:17 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  2 03:47:17 1984
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> 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