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Show Tht 09y Utdi Chronicle WttfMtday, Odobtr 7. 1 S31 PagoEtaron R, EQ!5ffEB VJ5DD h Coge P'ess Service True deterrence legitimate purpose of arms program Editor's note: The author was one of two University students sponsored by the Hinckley Institute of Politics at a Washington, D.C. symposium on arms control and nuclear proliferation this summer. During his two week stay in Washington, he heard lectures and participated in informal question and answer sessions at the Department of Suit, the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the Arms Control Association. The following article is the second in a series of four that will be based on the material discussed at the sessions and iheauihor's reactions to them. The first article of this series dealt with the "who" of the "what" that makes me arms txriicy of this coiiiuty. In this article I hope to follow in complementary foi m by looking at the following quest ions: What ate the principles on vvhichoui arms policy is based? Why is one weaMns sy stein t hosen o ei anot her? Does t he c hosen system su pj x rt t he pi i nc i pies of on i arms policy? What might Ik- some of the alternatives foi weapons and arms olic? From the end of World War II until thestu c cssful launc hing of Sputnik in 957. the nuclear xdiey of the I'liiied States centered on an idea called "deterrenc e." In thecal Iv daysof our nuclear policy, deterrence meant that any attack tixn the United States or its allies would bring a swift and massive retaliation. Held in question was whether or not this response (after our frustration in Korea) would inc lucle U.S. war planes - 1 aimed with mic Ixnnbs. But the wot Id bee. one much mote complex aftei the launehing ol Sputnik: we weie faced with the xssihilitv of ol Ixiiig recipients in a nuclear war Following this awakening (the last Kiseuhowei and Kennedy Administia-- I ie us ). we gave bit th to sev ci al key we i els that wei elodiiee loin new at ms xlic . We ke pt the word deterrent e and added the idea of "suiv ivability." Our weaxus would de ter an attack and lx- capable of suiviving a Soviet attack with enough weaxns left to retaliate in kind. To accomplish this goal we - " I liad." This meant out vve.txns would be submatines and ail planes. Ne xt nine the woiel in silos, flexible. I bis meant that out new strategy needed to inc hide the ability to rcstximl to a minoi insurrection or a nuclear holK.iusi. Every level of this scale was to include wcaxns with a mic lear capability. So now we have a Triad with a flexible resxnse that can de ter conflic t al any level and be able te survive in the same lange. These ideas, however old. are still the keys that direct continued on pagt twtlvt had tei have a base-e- l rr JOHN BNNOS A lament for lost ideals and dreams 1S9 Editor's note: This is the first part of a five-paseries by John Ennison the effects of conservatism Reaganism on American rt wm woo mm mmm w ideals. There seems to be a problem in the United States lately; it serins that a gocxl part of nation has lost it's dreams. This phenomenon, contrary to the railing of the left, is not attributable to Reagan. He did not invent the problem; he is merely one of the symptoms. Reagan did not take our dreams from us at guiixint. Our president is merely the sxkesman for that clearheaded faction which realizes that we (or for that matter, any society ) cannot hold up under the burdensof a or a great society. Thccronomic si rains caused by sue h t an will, without fail, cause the collapse of the r new-frontie- exx-rimen- same. Reagan xintcd this out, and more. He pointed out that our the Soviets, were devoting erst while all ies-- t in their energies to world domination and we had damn well better stop them if we are to stay at the top of the heap. I le pointed out the fad that our sex iety was overloaded with with bureaucrats. And that along regulations and with these came the stifling of personal initiative and coix)iate survivability. Jim Watt, the puppet of this clearheaded realist xintcd out that we have suffered from a couple ef decades ef cnvitoumental fanatac ism and our tremendous need for is being throttled by a few shortsighted ecologists. In short. Reagan is mere ly telling us the ugly truth, and we gave away our dreams when we saw fit to clee t him. We gave away the visions. We gave away the dreams of thethe Johnsons, and the kings, bec ause it seemed that all of the issues that Reagan (xMrmV eul as having the e f fe e is shown are true. A great sex iety evr new frontier is uearlv inixssibletorun without immense commitment and saciifice. We weie not willing te give this. The energies of the Russians are offensive Ix-i use they si closely resemble our own enei gie-- during in die- hox-oThe bureaucracy that was put w asset- n c Theenv iionment didn't. renting something better as something sacred to pass iiioin i hilelren. and now it looks i 11. like all ;!u v w ill M'C !S .1 i.ljH w Nik . ihe and So, gexxl xopIe-- Mop crying whining and more must and more that he tells when you piesidcnt up. The choice was made by the American people last November le give up what we had. We gave up the difficult dreams of the '60s for the easy path of simple economics. We just ignored all that Reagan stexxl for and fell prey t his rhetoric of lew taxes and high profits. So. after all is said and done, the return is made to the good and manifest de stiny . whe re- the fateed old days of laissez-fair- e the Duffale is the rule rathei than the exception. I hope that we w ill at least Mine inlxr what could have bee n. and I e sn-- iallv top-heav- y s - s c the-1930- - f loge-the- - ill he lpustoswallow hoiiethat thesugarsel the medicine of shattered dreams. John Ennis is a gradual in g sen ity in Political Science International Studies and nerved in SATO Headquarters, Europe. BUY 10, GET 2 FREE. , llie advantages "ef of rcce ndmg n Maxell cassettes are vvell- kmm n. liut right n nv. there's a sounder rease m h ) st( ck up tn them. 10 U X L HHin For every nute cassettes ye u buy. u get twe ) me re cassettes u free. While quantities last. Tliats an extra 1X0 minutes ol Maxell tape. 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