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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