Arms-Control Fever

Arms-Control

Last month President Reagan took the occasion of his weekly radio broadcast to repeat what he and everyone else in his Administration have stated again and again, that America is willing to consider “any serious Soviet counter-offer” to our proposals for cutting back nuclear arsenals. The key word, of course, is “serious.” We have had frivolous counter-offers aplenty—stalling operations, headlinefillers, propaganda ploys—and we shall have many more. We must sift them carefully and reject them firmly, in the hope that by doing so and in the knowledge that only by doing so can we encourage true responsiveness.

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Eugene V. Rostow

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Last month President Reagan took the occasion of his weekly radio broadcast to repeat what he and everyone else in his Administration have stated again and again, that America is willing to consider “any serious Soviet counter-offer” to our proposals for cutting back nuclear arsenals. The key word, of course, is “serious.” We have had frivolous counter-offers aplenty—stalling operations, headlinefillers, propaganda ploys—and we shall have many more. We must sift them carefully and reject them firmly, in the hope that by doing so and in the knowledge that only by doing so can we encourage true responsiveness.