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daily nebraskan
monday, march 2, 1981
Disarmament authority rallies arms race freeze
By Beth Head rick
The director of the Institute for Defense
and Disarmament Studies asked Nebras
kans to organize now to freeze the nuclear
arms race and to stop the United States
and the Soviet Union from intervening in
the conventional wars of developing coun
tries. Randall Forsberg Saturday told the Ne
braskans for Peace at Sacred Heart Church
in Lincoln there is a broad movement
among peace activists, civic leaders, the
scientific community, women's organiza
tions and the religious faction to bring
the dangers of nuclear war. to the atten
tion of the public.
The peace movement always has been
on the fringe of society, she said, but with
the number and the variety of groups
involved, it can reach the heart of America
in the same way the anti-war movement
did in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
She said a bilateral freeze on producing
nuclear weapons is possible because the
United States and the Soviet Union have
practically achieved military parity. A
freeze wouldn't mean disarmament, but
stopping further nuclear arms escalation.
Such a freeze would be advantageous for
the Soviets now because at the present
growth rate, by 1990, they will be more
vulnerable to nuclear attack than the
United States, she said.
The United States still is ahead in the
race because of the advanced submarine
detection systems set up both on towers
and on the ocean floor. The MX missile
system also will make the Soviet's ICBMs
vulnerable, she said.
Easier to verify
A freeze is easier to verify than either
the SALT 1 or SALT II treaties, she said.
Instead of keeping track of how many
nuclear weapons are being built, the sate
llites only have to monitor back that noth
ing is being built.
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i'or 20 years the United States was
ahead of the Soviet Union, she said, but
the newspapers from the 1940s and 1950s
gave the same rhetoric that the papers give
today: The Soviets are more advanced
technologically than the United States.
Now the Soviets have more missiles and
larger ones than the United States, she said,
but they do not have a superior weapons
system overall. U.S. missiles are more
accurate. The United States has advanced
anti-submarine warfare and the USSR's
land-based missile system will be threaten
ed by the MX missile system, the cruise
and the Trident missile systems.
However, that kind of comparative
arms-race talk is absurd, she said. The
two superpowers only use their nuclear
arms as a power lever to fight conventional
wars on foreign soil.
Superiority without challenge
"What Alexander Haig would miss (if
there was a nuclear arms production
freeze) is not deterring a war in Europe,
not deterring an out-of-the-blue Russian
attack on U.S. cities, but his attempts to
intervene in developing countries to
Correction
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restaurant in the Nebraska Union would
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maintain U.S. superiority without a
challenge," she said.
No one expects a conventional war in
Furopc, she said, only in countries like
Iran, Saudi Arabia, Africa and Latin Amer
ica. In the meantime, Forsberg said, building
more nuclear weapons is dangerous and
unnecessary.
Forsberg said if a bilateral halt were
called, clandestine weapon-building would
not be a problem. It's not only difficult
to build, set up and test weapons is secret,
she said, but the nuclear arms race has been
used mostly during peace time to show
military supremacy, and being clandestine
doesn't achieve that end.
In a workshop Forsberg directed after
her speech, pamphlets were handed out
that said a nuclear anns freeze would save
each government $50 to $75 billion.
"If the U.S. took the initiative and
stopped, in a couple of years the USSR
would see we were serious and a bilateral
freeze would become reality," she said.
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