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From: jsanders@aecom.UUCP (Jeremy Sanders)
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Subject: Re: PWhat if They Threw a War...
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Date: Fri, 18-Nov-83 14:07:48 EST
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The US has not, I hope will not, unitlateraly disarm itself because a great
number of her people highly value their freedom.

No, I don't think that the Soviets would either immediatly invade the US
or launch a nuclear strike against us. It would be difficult for them to
invade the US without first defeating our allied in Europe. While I don't
think the USSR would immediatly attack Western Europe, our disarmament would
make the loss of W.E. inevitable: either thru invasion (The USSR has a
strong lead on us in conventional weaponry or by W.E.'s neutalization by
Soviet threats of nuclear attack (and don't think they won't - we did in
the Cuban Missle crisis). The USSR would probably not use their nuclear
force so long as their conventional forces would suffice, but I doubt that
the US would fall to an attack of only conventional weapons.

I don't know if our diarmament would 'scare the hell out of Margaret or
Mitterand' but it sure would scare the pants off of me.

As far as how this would affect world opinion or be seen by the UN - that
question is would become completely meaningless. Why would the Soviets care
about world opinion when they hold all the trumps ?

					Jeremy Sanders