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Show ; fGroup Appreciates feoth Utah Senators ' 'i On behalf of more than 60,000 United States De- i: fense Committee members in Utah and nationwide, I a would like to publicly express appreciation to Sena-" Sena-" tors Jake Gam and Orrin Hatch. 'J i- V SENATOR Gam in cooperation with Senator W Hatch, has sponsored S.J. Resolution 74, advancing . the goal of strategic stability through a proposed V f ,' program of balanced force modernization, increased n, '; survivability of nuclear weapons systems, and insist- ( 1 ence on on-site inspection in any arms negotiation. f- I think that Utah and the nation are greatly bene-i bene-i ?, fited through the service of Senators Hatch and Garn i t- who have looked beyond the "freeze" hysteria and have chosen instead to focus on the facts. A. . A CLOSE look at the facts demonstrates that a ' V nuclear "freeze" at this time, when we are vulner-I vulner-I y. able to a Soviet first strike, is suicide and that Sena-I Sena-I j-f tor Gam's proposal offers a sensible alternative in-t in-t itiative for Nuclear Arms Control. !T" History has shown that the Soviets sign only two kinds of treaties; those that clearly give them an advantage and those that they break. 4 t: SENATOR Gam's proposal recognizes that a nuclear nuc-lear "freeze" would lock key elements of the United State's strategic forces into place, which could result m' in a destabilizing imbalance and increase the likeli-hood likeli-hood of nuclear war. 'Iic S.J. Res. 74 also recognizes that the strategic and 'll theater nuclear wepons of the United States are aging ag-ing and our land-based ICBM's are becoming more vulnerable, resulting in an overall strategic instability instabil-ity which can only be corrcted by periodic moderni-zation moderni-zation and replacement with more survivable weapons systems. t FURTHERMORE, the Gam proposal calls for the I United States to put particular emphasis on methods sJ ! of verification, including on-site inspections, in any pursuit of negotiations in nuclear arms reductions. "i Any move by the United States on "arms control" jj must start - not end - with agreement on foolproof i on-site inspection. WHILE I doubt that the Soviets will ever agree to j unlimited on-site inspection, any discussion of other areas is meaningless without it. f For forty years we were able to deter aggression . against America for one reason. We had clear military milit-ary superiority over all our adversaries. iii BUT NOW A.nerica has lost that margin of safety. Twenty years ago America was able to face down i the Russians when we discovered they had placed Ti'" nuclear missiles in Cuba, because we had over- , whelming military superiority over them". : TODAY, DUE to two decades of defense cut- : backs, the situation is reversed. , ; Throughout the 1970's, the United States didn't j deploy a singls new ICBM missile, long-range bom- i ber or ballistic missile firing submarine. ! MEANWHILE, the Soviets developed at least ten : ' , different varieties of four new ICBM's, built sixty : j new subs, turned out over 250 modem Backfire bom- : I bers and placed over 300 theater nuclear missiles ; aimed at our European allies. t), . As a result the Soviets now surpass us two-to-one '. in overall nuclear strength. , ; ' AND AS the Soviets have surpassed us iri military ; power, they've gotten increasingly bold in realizing jj their expansionist aims. jf - They've felt free to invade Afghanistan, crush j : freedom in Poland, ignite Marxist-terriorist wars j throughout the Third World, and forment revolu- ! i tions right under our noses in Central America and ; the Caribbean, f? ''. S.J. RESOLUTION 74 provides a balanced prog- j ; ram recognizing the need for modernization which vjl brings us closer to achieving a more stable nuclear J' environment, a goal shared by all Americans. ; Daniel O. Graham t U.S. Army Retired r President : U.S. Defense Committee r ' V |