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and at limited risk. The Korean War is a notable example.”

Premier Khrushchev, on the occasion of his triumphal progress through the U.S., presented the United Nations with a proposal for total disarmament. Those Western statesmen who declared that Premier Khrushchev’s proposal is worthy of “serious consideration” may find ample food for thought in Dr. Garthoff’s terse commentary on contemporary Soviet military thought. The arms race is fraught with terrible dangers; its cessation would be a boon to mankind. But it is difficult to see how partial disarmament—according to Premier Khrushchev, total disarmament will have to be preceded by gradual arms reduction—would diminish Soviet capabilities for fighting the kind of wars the Communists have actually been fighting since the termination of World War II. These wars were limited; they were fought with conventional weapons and, in some places, with the simplest of conventional weapons.

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and at limited risk. The Korean War is a notable example.”

Premier Khrushchev, on the occasion of his triumphal progress through the U.S., presented the United Nations with a proposal for total disarmament. Those Western statesmen who declared that Premier Khrushchev’s proposal is worthy of “serious consideration” may find ample food for thought in Dr. Garthoff’s terse commentary on contemporary Soviet military thought. The arms race is fraught with terrible dangers; its cessation would be a boon to mankind. But it is difficult to see how partial disarmament—according to Premier Khrushchev, total disarmament will have to be preceded by gradual arms reduction—would diminish Soviet capabilities for fighting the kind of wars the Communists have actually been fighting since the termination of World War II. These wars were limited; they were fought with conventional weapons and, in some places, with the simplest of conventional weapons.