Show Unilateral Disarmament Wishful Thinking It is expected that within the next few months the United States government will make a decision on whether or not to begin a series of nuclear tests in the There has been much controversy concerning this coming decision and the resulting pros and cons can be placed in two categories the continuation of nuclear tests by the United and an attempt by the United States to achieve unilateral Erich Fromm has outlined the basic concepts of unilateral disarmament in a pamphlet titled for Unilateral in which he basic idea underlying this concept is that of a radical change of our method of negotiating multilateral change implies that we give up the present method of bargaining in which every concession we make is dependent on a corresponding and guaranteed concession on the part of the we gradual steps toward disarmament in the expectation that the Russians will reciprocate and the present deadlock in the negotiations for universal disarmament can be broken Some of the mentioned by Fromm are sharing of scientific stopping of atomic troop evacuation of one or more military and discontinuation of German Now the questions Could such a program aimed at eventual disarmament Can government such as Russia's be trusted under unilateral It is hard to believe that if the United States lowered its guard and announced to the world it was disarming Russia would reciprocate along these same The basic concept of unilateral as outlined by would create a wonderful world to live but when a country like Russia is involved it turns out to be wishful In political dealings with Russia during the past the United States has found out that the Communists cannot be Russia's recent nuclear tests serve as an Both the United States and Russia had informally agreed to discontinue nuclear yet the Russians didn't pay any attention to this informal ban and began a series of tests which moved them closer to or possibly ahead of the United States in the so called Russia's books tell them they will conquer the world and their experience so far tells them they are It is also evident that most Russian aggression has in countries where United States military forces have not been present as a deterrent So why should the United States play into Russia's hand and help them on their way to world The only other alternative left for the United States is to prepare for future aggression by the Soviet In a lecture last Monday concerning atomic Edward Teller nuclear bombing of Japan during the second world war did show us that the atomic bomb can be used as a defense and to stop But there will be no time to prepare for the use of this weapon in the the United States must prepare in a time of |