Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 6, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press tuesday january 6, 1975 9 unilateral disarmament tar reaching and dangerous conclusions have been drawn by Andre Sakharov in All the disarmament talks the soviet Side has i g i d 1 y resisted verification. There Are Many reasons for this the secretiveness of so Viet society the traditional and today senseless spy mania the wish to Bluff that is to give the impression of greater Stern Ali than one actually the desire to gain the advantage of sur prise. Making use of its real strength Good will and de termination the West must oppose this Reid and unreasonable position with great firmness an equally Basic problem is the danger that the strategic doctrine and practices of a totalitarian state May prove More ruthless toward the population of its own country Anil toward All Man kind More Advent Ristic and More subject to accidents go verned by personal factors and decisions secretly taken than is the Case in a demo Cratie state. Before discussing the agreements in detail i would like to dwell upon the wide spread misconception that for economic reasons the so Viet Side has a greater inter est in real than do its Western on the basis of this Assumption far reaching and in my Opin Ion dangerous conclusions have been drawn As to the desirability of unilateral Dis armament by the West. Unfortunately the situation is much More Complex. Of course the economic system of the soviet Union tremendously burdened with Mili tary expenditures is under extreme tension and it is very much in the interests of the majority of the Popula Tion to reallocate millions of rubles to peaceful purposes. But any Basic shift in the militarization of Wiir country s Economy is impossible with out general political changes. Today the dominant characteristic of the policy of the authorities is not to change anything Basic so As not to destroy the existing equilibrium and in the final analysis so As not to jeopardize the elite s status and privileges which Are closely bound up with this equilibrium. One May Well be apprehensive that unilateral disarmament by the West would not encounter a reciprocal response and this would create a dangerous disturbance the existing nuclear balance. I am convinced that any agreements that would have a real and not merely sym. Bolic must in clude one. As a first stage be fore a total Bah on offensive thermonuclear missiles a sufficiently Low limit with parity in terms of the Over All capacity of the warheads on the delivery systems of strategic thermonuclear War Heads. This formulation pre supposes that the maximum Over All capacity of warheads deployed on strategic Deli very systems be fixed at the same level for the .s.h., and the United states also and most important that the limit be sufficiently Low so that even if All the War Heads hit the enemy s cities Only a fraction of the build Ings would be destroyed and Only a Small part of the population would be wiled. Two. Banning the deploy ment and improvement of strategic antimissile defense systems. A total ban on multiple independently target ble warheads three. A better system of verification including on site inspection. The eventual goal of these agreements should be a Complete ban on thermonuclear and atomic weapons. Unfortunately the. 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And the United states the right to defend one Region in the Case of the .s.r., the Moscow Region with a Small number of Abms. According to some estimates the mumber of installations required for effective defense is much greater perhaps 30 times greater than that specified in the agreement. Therefore in the absence of on the spot verification it is possible that one Side could secretly increase the number of its installations. Furthermore soviet citizens know that the Moscow Region is not Only the Mili tary Industrial heart of the nation but by and Large the elite s enclave. Involuntarily one entertains a horrible lurking suspicion and envisions a state of affairs in which with such a defence 1 system a great part of the country s territory and popu lation is being sacrificed to the temptation to gain a decisive first strike advantage with relative Security for the Moscow officials. No less alarming Are cer Tain aspects of the agree ments on offensive thermonuclear missiles. Here again there Are shortcomings in the verification. Whereas surface and underground launch Sites can still be More or less detected by recon Naissance satellites All other methods of deploying mis Siles using underwater and Mobile launching platforms leave unverified the launch ing weight of the missiles the capacity of the War Heads and the proportion of missiles that Are sieved. Tie ceiling for the number of delivery systems has been set extraordinarily High. Even a Small fraction of the maximum number allowed would be enough to do Terri ble damage. Since so much has been written on the effects of nuclear weapons i shall men Tion Only a few indicative Fig ures. The explosion of one Mil lion tons one megaton of int the capacity for example of a single Light thermonuclear warhead of a Polaris missile r would de stroy Urban buildings Over an area of about 50 Square Kilometres and Burn every thing in that area that is flammable. Even if shelters were available hundreds of thousands of people would be killed. An explosion at ground level or at a relatively Low Altitude is accompanied by a fallout of radioactive parti cles in a radioactive Trail that drifts with the Cloud from a one megaton explosion yields a lethal Dos age of radiation from 600 to Roentgen and even More in the Centre Over an area of several thousand Square Kilometres. According to the Vladivostok agree ment both the . And the United states May main Tain up to carriers of warheads. The agreement said nothing about the Capac Ity of the warheads on one delivery system. According to data from the literature the capacities of modern thermonuclear War Heads Range from one Mega ton Small missiles of the Polaris and similar types up to 30 Megatons and above bombs and the heaviest in 1961 the soviet Union tested a thermonuclear warhead which in its fully jacketed combat version has a Ca p a e i t y of 100 Megatons Khrushchev reported this at the 22nd party Congress in an attack presumably some of the incoming mis Siles will be used to Neutral ize enemy launch Sites and let us assume further that a High percentage of those remaining Are knocked Down by the other Side s abm sys tem so that the enemy cities Are reached by say Only five per cent if the existing that allowed by the agreement missile Force. This five per cent will still comprise 120 missiles with thermonuclear warheads whose total destruction capacity i would estimate at 600 Megatons. Even on such modest assumptions then thermonuclear War would inevitably entail the destruction of a great part of the cities and a major portion of the population of both of the countries involved. So far i have considered Only those warheads that would have reached their targets. But with the explosion of a great number of warheads or of individual warheads of substantial capacity the effect of global radioactive contamination takes on special significance. Since the winds can carry radioactive products to All Points of the Earth the site of the explosion is completely unimportant As regards the global effect. resulted in to Megatons would result in the Complete annihilation of every living thing on the Earth. Even that fatal extreme is not too far beyond the established Ceil ing. If the total number of soviet and . Warheads reaches the allowed figure of with an average capacity of 10 Megatons tile Capac Ity will amount to me Gatons. And this projection d o e s not include Britain China and France the complexity of the situation is increased by what we know from published materials about the difference Between the launching weights of soviet and Ameri can missiles. In the Spring of 1975 United states Secretary of defence James Schlesinger stated that a soviet missile can be mired with eight warheads As against three . Warheads because of the threefold difference in throw weights. I expect if future talks do not Lead to an agreement limiting the Over All capacity of the warhead with a ceiling sufficiently Low in the near future the United states will equip its missile Force with heavier boosters. Then the . Will take reciprocal measures and the arms race will Only be intensified. The fact that the Vladivostok agreement seemed to legitimize multiple independently targe table warheads is also alarming. It has been noted Many times that this new fashion in military Rock etry opens up new go Sibili ties for the arms race and increases the danger of a so called unstable strategic situation. Put quite simply it would become strategically advantageous and relatively Safe for either Side to de liver a preemptive strike with nuclear missiles. That is in the language of human beings to commit the Grea test crime in history it is Plain that the Belliger ent who unexpectedly de livers the first strike will be Able with 70 per cent to 100 per cent of his mired mis Siles to immediately destroy All of the enemy s launch Sites while with his remain ing conventional missiles he can destroy All of the enemy s cities plus Liis Mili tary Industrial and transport facilities and thus Deal him a crushing blow doing enough damage to decide the out come of the War without having been hit by a Retalia tory strike. This is what is meant by the temptation of the first excerpted from my country and the world by Nobel peace prize Winner Andrei d. Sakharov copy right 1975 by Alfred a. Knopf inc. Next the Middle East in memory of or. Morris Kaplan Mormack distributors will be closed on tuesday Jan. 6, 1976 Weston Square Mcphillips Logan 786-5539 or 786-5530 next door to Eaton s j set t soon just a few of prices effective from our Deli items wed. Jan. 7 to tues. Jan. 13 potato salad coleslaw Chicken salad chopped liver Erogies sandwiches meat pies meatballs bean salad asst d cheeses pastrami herring fresh fish smoked fish corned beef Burns sliced Side Bacon Burn Pride of Canada 1 in. Pkg. Kosher style corned beef shaved off in. Spaghetti Cross rib roasts Canada Grade a 1 t j 981 Chuck round Bone roasts Semi Boneless Blade roasts Canada Grade a 1 t 2 arge headless Smoltz herring 15 Paramount red sock Eye Salmon store hours Mon. Fri. . -9 . Sat. . 6 . We Reserve the right to Smit quantities. 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