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From: serge@rna.UUCP
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Subject: Re: The arms race -- and Finlandization
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Date: Sat, 12-Jan-85 12:46:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 12 12:46:00 1985
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Nf-From: rna!serge    Jan 22 12:46:00 1985

I am sorry for a poor choise of words. 'if nuclear weapons had 
not been developed' was not meant to mean if they had never existed.
What I meant was, if nuclear weapons had not been aggressively
produced and enhanced by the U.S. in the early post war period
the nuclear arms race, as we know it today, may have not developed.
In particular, the developement of the H bomb was pushed by 
certain members of the scientific establishment who had built
the A bomb. For whatever reasons they had, this super bomb was
succesfully lobbied for and brought into reality.
Of course hindsight is always 20/20 :-)

Finlandization was meant as the general term for when the Soviets
take a country and cause it to become neutral with a dash of fear.
Finland may well be a special case geopolitically but the Soviets
chiseling away at the NATO alliance is not.