From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!hpda!hplabs!hplabsb!soreff
Newsgroups: net.politics
Title: Re: Arms Limitation
Article-I.D.: hplabsb.1523
Posted: Wed Apr  6 12:16:30 1983
Received: Fri Apr  8 02:43:48 1983
References: cca.4557

There have been a number of suggestions on non-arms-limitations approaches
to increasing the chances of peace.  I've heard of suggestions to have the
children/grandchildren of  government officials on both sides living in the
opponent's country.  This has the natural effect of giving both governments
personal reasons to avoid war (or at least such forms of war as would
threaten civilian populations, which includes almost all current forms).
Alternatively, some fraction of the government officials of each nation
could reside in the other and tele-commute (since most of what they
generate is text).  Other suggestions that I've heard include *joint*
US/USSR work on defensive weapons, which can be arranged to eliminate some
of the destabilizing effects of ABMs and the like (eg. simultaneous
activation of both systems to avoid a situation where one defense system is
substantially more complete than the other).  Some of these may be easier
to implement than they at first appear.  Exchange of relatives of government
officials, for instance, can be partially handled by systems for exchange
students of universities, which already exist for other uses.
Comments?	-Jeffrey Soreff (hplabs!hplabsb!soreff)