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START proposal Invites a Continued Arms Race, Press release, 1982
In this statement, Randall Forsberg addresses President Reagan's START proposal announced on May 9th 1982. Forsberg compares the impact of START proposal on US forces and on Soviet forces. She states that by proposing to reduce some categories of weapons and by permitting new, more advances weapons to replace the existing ones, Reagan's position, if accepted by Soviets, would lead to a continued nuclear arms race with greater, not less, instability.
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Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies Records, #8588. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
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