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The Nation’s Safety and Arms Control, by Arthur T. Hadley (Viking, $3). Attempting to unite the requirements of national defense with precautions against nuclear holocaust, the author argues for an “arms control” system limiting Moscow and Washington each to a fixed number of nuclear weapons. Such a system, he believes, offers the best opportunity for “a more stable world.” The argument begs the question of whether the stabilization of a world in chains is a proper goal of American policy. It would institutionalize a deadlock in which America’s atomic strength is cancelled by apprehensions of equivalent striking power in the USSR, and by the conviction that, rather than win the cold war, we must cling grimly to the statucs quo. The result: absolute assurance that we shall never unlock the Soviet prison house, and a zone of immunity for Communist insurrection, subversion and infiltration.

M. S EVANS

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The Nation’s Safety and Arms Control, by Arthur T. Hadley (Viking, $3). Attempting to unite the requirements of national defense with precautions against nuclear holocaust, the author argues for an “arms control” system limiting Moscow and Washington each to a fixed number of nuclear weapons. Such a system, he believes, offers the best opportunity for “a more stable world.” The argument begs the question of whether the stabilization of a world in chains is a proper goal of American policy. It would institutionalize a deadlock in which America’s atomic strength is cancelled by apprehensions of equivalent striking power in the USSR, and by the conviction that, rather than win the cold war, we must cling grimly to the statucs quo. The result: absolute assurance that we shall never unlock the Soviet prison house, and a zone of immunity for Communist insurrection, subversion and infiltration.

M. S EVANS