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the likelihood of nuclear war as between “almost certain” and greater
than one in a hundred—far too high to face with equanimity; 37% of the
experts shared this judgment.
13. Joseph Gerson, Nuclear Times, February 1984.
14. See Fateful Triangle on the evasions of the peace movement, on
Lebanese opinion, and on the scandalous failure of the media to consider
it.
15. Nuclear Arms Control, Committee on International Security and Arms
Control, National Academy of Sciences (National Academy Press, 1985),
84, 78, 87; for the text, see UN Press Release GA/6935, 13 Jan. 1984,
Resolutions and Decisions Adopted by the General Assembly, 124-5.
The Resolution, 38/76, called for a freeze “under appropriate
verification” of all nuclear weapons and delivery systems, including
testing and production.
16. Eric Pace, NYT, Dec. 10, 1982; Bernard Nossiter, NYT, Dec. 14, 1982;
Tom Wicker, NYT, Oct. 7, 1985; Bethe quoted by Arthur Schlesinger,
WSJ, Oct. 7, 1985; Barnaby, by Diana Johnstone, In These Times,
Sept. 18, 1985.
17. William Broad, “Pershings Stir Accidental-War Fears,” NYT, Dec. 12,
1983; Edward Dolnick, “Can computers cope with war?,” BG, Dec. 10,
1984.
18. Defense Monitor, 5, 1983.
19. Walter Pincus and Don Oberdorfer, WP Weekly, Dec. 17, 1984.
20. Strategic weapons are defined differently by the USSR and the US. Soviet
proposals refer to weapons that can strike the other superpower; US
calculations omit US forward-based systems and US missiles in Europe
that are aimed at Soviet targets, and the arsenals of US allies, with
considerable further vagueness. We would reject the latter stance as
absurd if the situation were reversed.
21. Bernard Weinraub, NYT, Sept. 29, 1985; “Week in Review,” same day;
Paul Lewis, NYT, Sept. 22, 1985; UPI, BG, Sept. 29.
22. Jeffrey Duncan, BAS, Oct. 1985. The facts were partially conceded in a
misleading comment by Leslie Gelb, NYT, Oct. 4, 1985.