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Arms: arsenal for peace? Professors condemn ‘outgunning’ defense policies By Frank Shaw 0< the Emerald "We re trying to deter nuclear war by building nuclear weapons and as we advance the weapons become more destablilizing instead of less," said Steve Johnson, a sociology professor at a convocation on nuclear war Thursday Johnson was one of five professors who served as panelists responding to a videotaped speech of retired Admiral Noel Gaylor's plan to prevent nuclear war. The group also answered questions from the audience Dave Soper, a physics professor, opened the discussion by reading from a speech by Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger defining deference and saying the United States must never be outgunned by the Soviet Union "It’s not as if we’ve fallen behind," Johnson said The convocation was sponsored by a faculty committee called the Organizing Committee for Symposia on Nuclear Arms Control. One question from the audience concerned the death of Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev and its possible effects on the foreign policy of the Soviet Union. Allan Winkler, a history professor, said he thought there would be no change in the im mediate future " Soper agreed, saying the foreign policy of the Soviet Union would be uncertain for a number of years. All of the panelists agreed there were poten tially good effects from a unilateral disarmament, but while Soper said it would be safer not to have the MX or any other land-based missile, he claimed that just getting rid of all the missiles would be "scary " Johnson said the U S. could go quite a ways in disarmament without hurting their defense and in doing so would put a lot of political pressure on the Soviet Union to do the same In a discussion concerning the no first-strike pledge made by the Soviet Union and rejected by the United States, Johnson said it would be a pledge of faith, but indicated he didn't think it would solve the problem Soper agreed and said at the present time the United States was planning on using nuclear weapons on the battlefield in the event of a Soviet invasion of Europe He said a better defense might be to increase the number of conventional weapons and troops in Europe Johnson disagreed, saying "It’s really war we want to stop ” He also thought a build-up of Photo by David Kao Professors Steve Johnson. Dave Soper and Allan Winkler, were among five panelist to discuss nuclear war and defense policy at a faculty com mittee sponsored convocation conventional forces in Europe would dramatically increase the chance of nuclear war Winkler said that even though it would be only a symbolic gesture, the United States would have everything to gain and nothing to lose by a no-first-strike agreement Answering a question concerning the prob lem of the development of nuclear weapons by Third World countries, Johnson said the biggest threat to international peace would be a misunderstanding between the Soviet Union and the United States. Gaylor called the possibility of a 'shield” against attack by intercontinental Ballistics Missiles an illusion. Responding to a question from the audience, Winkler agreed that such a defense was impossi ble and that the military minds thought in different terms when they spoke of a "successful" defense. “Military planners don't care so much about populations as they do about military installa tions” Winkler said. 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