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From: plunkett@rlgvax.UUCP (Scott Plunkett)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Unilateral disarmament? - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 15-Dec-83 09:59:55 EST
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Daver@hp-pcd wonders what the Western alliance would do in the face of
unilateral USSR nuclear disarmament.  Answer: Nothing.  The Soviet Union
in Europe would still maintain an overwhelming conventional force, so
we would still require nuclear weaponry--the neutron shell would be best--
to resist conventional onslaughts.  The failure to apply nuclear weapons
against the advancing Soviet forces would surely result in yet another
wholesale destruction of Europe and its peoples.

But this is mere fantasy.  We all know the Soviets, cunning devils, would
keep an SS-20 or two or a thousand tucked away behind the Urals.

..allegra!rlgvax!plunkett