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Copyright 1987 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Set in Linotron Sabon at Rainsford Type Printed by Cushing Malloy and bound by John Dekker & Sons
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Waller, Douglas C. Congress and the nuclear freeze. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Nuclear disarmamentUnited States. 2. Nuclear arms controlUnited States. 3. Antinuclear movement United States. 4. United States. Congress. I. Title. JX1974.7.W34 1987 327.1'74'0973 86-19336 ISBN 0-87023-559-1 (alk. paper) ISBN 0-87023-560-5 (pbk. alk. paper)
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To Judy, Drew, Colby, and David
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Contents
Foreword
by Edward M. Kennedy
ix
Preface
xiii
Acknowledgments
xxi
Prologue
3
One The Reagan Revolution
8
Two A Movement Begins
21
Three A Movement Begins in Congress
42
Four Challenges and Opportunities
74
Five The First Test in Congress
101
Six Politics and the Freeze
159
Seven The Second Test in Congress
181
Eight The Siege Begins
228
Nine Conclusion
286
Appendixes
305
Notes
319
Selected Bibliography
331
Index
339
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Foreword
Halting the arms race is the overriding issue of our timeand of all time. Together, the United States and the Soviet Union possess the equivalent of one million Hiroshima bombsnearly four tons of TNT for every man, woman, and child presently living on this planet. Yet the arms race rushes ahead, as both sides continue to pile overkill on overkill. Each superpower, fearing that its deterrent may be vulnerable to a first-strike capability by the other side, is producing more and more sophisticated weapons that only weaken deterrence and enhance the possibility of a first strike.
In the decades since Hiroshima, officials in Moscow and Washington have often praised the principle of nuclear disarmamentwhile pursuing the phantom of nuclear superiority. Both sides have amassed nuclear arsenals far beyond any legitimate security need. The present administration is pouring billions of dollars into Star Wars antimissile weapons, which could mean the end of arms control and a dangerous new escalation of nuclear weapons into outer space. The furious pace of the arms race in Moscow and Washington mocks the slow pace of the arms talks in Geneva.
The time to halt the arms race is nowon both sides. The excuses for not doing so are preposterous in the face of the overwhelming danger if deterrence fails and nuclear war breaks out. With their massive arsenals, the United States and the Soviet Union are capable of destroying each other many times over, and the addition of even more weapons will not alter that basic calculation. For most Americans, this is what nuclear parity meansenough is enough. And it is the reason why the concept of a nuclear weapons freeze acquired such compelling grass-roots support across America in the early 1980s.
While arms experts debated the nuclear version of how many angels can dance on the head of a pinor how high each side can make the other's rubble bounceAmericans by the millions joined a nationwide movement for a sane alternative. From town meetings in New England to petition drives in California, citizens in their own communities took up the call for an immediate, mutual, verifiable freeze on the testing,
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production, and deployment of all nuclear weapons, followed by deep reductions in the arsenals of both sides.
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