dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby) (01/16/86)
In article <204@aero.ARPA> foy@aero.UUCP (Richard Foy) writes: >How about an ENFORCEABLE agreement to cut nuclear arms to 50%? If we can make it truly enforceable, let's cut them all the way to 0. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Kirby ( ...!ihnp4!akgub!cylixd!dave)
franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) (01/19/86)
In article <696@cylixd.UUCP> dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby) writes: >In article <204@aero.ARPA> foy@aero.UUCP (Richard Foy) writes: > >>How about an ENFORCEABLE agreement to cut nuclear arms to 50%? > >If we can make it truly enforceable, let's cut them all the way to 0. Well, for one thing, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. can make a treaty to cut nuclear weapons 50%. To cut them to 0, you had better include at least Britain, France, and China. Also you want to get the current non- signatories to sign the Non-proliferation Treaty. All in all, the prospect makes getting a 50% reduction look easy by contrast. Frank Adams ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka Multimate International 52 Oakland Ave North E. Hartford, CT 06108
lazarus@sunybcs.UUCP (Daniel G. Winkowski) (01/23/86)
Daydreaming Scenario #114... USSR pulls out of nuclear armament talks. SDI envisioned and announced by Reagan. USSR agrees to new talks for the good of humanity :-), but SDI which is viewed as a severe disruption in mutual assured destruction (MAD) must be scrapped. US is adamant in pursuing SDI. USSR propaganda ploy: proposal to reduce nuclear arms to 0 in 15 years at the expense of SDI, and on site inspections are thrown in for good measure. US coup: US agrees to the above proposal in full realization that SDI has major problems (in expense, reliability, and future counter measures which will be used to undermine its effectiveness), and that the USSR could never agree to a complete dismantling of their nuclear weapons for the same reason as the US. USSR is backed into a corner and either: A) agrees with no intention of total reduction, and after X years an international incident causes the abandonment of the total reduction policy (hopefully in a way in which the USSR is seen to be a fault). B) modifies their proposal to a realistic reduction (showing that the first proposal was just an exercise in propaganda). Either way the US wins if it finally learns to play the propaganda game on world class terms. -------------- Dan Winkowski @ SUNY Buffalo Computer Science (716-636-2193) UUCP: ..![bbncca,decvax,dual,rocksanne,watmath]!sunybcs!lazarus CSNET: lazarus@Buffalo.CSNET ARPA: lazarus%buffalo@CSNET-RELAY [=] Today we live in the future, Tomorrow we'll live for the moment, But, pray we never live in the past.