tuesday, November 1, 1980
daily nebraskan
page 5
? to the editor
Continued from Page 4
Iranian Students' Association is an anti
imperialist, anti-reactionary organization
which supports the just struggle of the toil
ing masses of the world, including our own
people in Iran. We never let bourgeois nat
ionalist tendencies alter out solidarity with
the Arab toiling masses. We condemn the
Ba'athist regime of Iraq for this invasion
and we believe that Iraqi masses would ukl
never support this invasion.
We ask all progressive Iraqis, Arabs and
Americans to condemn this military inter
vention and expose the reactionary, expan
sionist policy of the Ba'athist regime.
Iranian Student Association
(Nov. 4, 1980)
True disarmament
needed
It is now time to separate fact fromfan
tasy, as Kirk Cameron quite correctly
pointed out in his letter to the editor of
Nov. 4.
In this letter Kirk explained how the
military forces of our country are strong
enough to deter any foreign aggression or
threats to our freedom and how it would
be complete madness for our nation to
continue a nuclear arms race with the Sov
iet Union or with any other country we
feel might possibly be a future threat.
Before getting hysterical about a
"Soviet threat" to the welfare of our
country, we must look at the facts of
military might and base our conclusions
from them.
1. ) American military strength in no
way lags behind its Soviet counterpart.
The United States Possesses well over 9,500
nuclear warheads, each capable of burning
the heart out of a major city. The Soviet
Union possesses just under 5,000 nuclear
warheads. American missiles have a greater
flight range, are more accurate than their
Soviet counterparts, and are generally far
technologically superior.
2. ) The amount of "over-kill" each side
possesses in offensive weaponry is utterly
ridiculous. A hundred nuclear weapon
weapons landing on the Soviet Union
would destroy a minimum of 37 million
people and at least 59 percent of their in
dustrial capacity, according to Pentagon
calculations. Lethal radiation following
these nuclear blasts would permeate the air
and water systems. Given these realities of
the nuclear age, if the Soviets cannot be
deterred by 9,500 nuclear warheads, it is
unclear to me why they will be deterred by
95,000.
The tragic irony is that by over-preparing
against implausible threats, we are
making ourselves less secure in two ways.
F:irst, we arc wasting valuable resources -money,
energy, imagination-thai could be
better directed toward more urgent secur
ity problems (such as controlling inflation,
developing alternative energy sources, pro
viding better social services such as health l
care, education, housing, employment
conditions.)
Second, each projected escalation in the
nuclear arms race (in which warheads are
made deadlier; missiles more accurate)
makes it more, not less, likely that we will
become involved in a war with the Soviet
Union through miscalculation as internat
ional relations intensify.
The absurdity of basing one's national
security on the threat to commit mass mur-
der of innocent people is seldom ever ever
questioned and thus the result is a never
ending arms race based on the mutual fear
that one side might possibly gain an un
fair advantage over the other so as to be in
a position to "win" a nuclear war.
Common sense therefore dictates that
both countries should make an attempt for
true disarmament now-while'there is still ;
still time to do so. Since the United States
has mostly perpetuated the arms race from
the beginning of the nuclear age, I feel it is
the responsibiliity of our country to make
the first initiative that will convery to
other nations a new basis for determining
security, based on the recognition that the
risks of moving to a new age of insanity in
the nuclear arms race far outweigh the risks
of peace. For the welfare of life on this
planet, this military madness cannot be
allowed to continue.
Jim Anderson
Nebraskans for Peace
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