ARMS POLICY IS INSANE, AUTHOR SAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100130034-9
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2010
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: March 3, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Cox said in a press conference at
Washington - University. "We are
likely to blow each other up
,.accidentally. There is a growing
danger of unintentional nuclear war.
That's a real probability now."
Soviet-American relations. ., '
"Our present course is insane,..
who has, -written four. books - on
-? -As we approach the capacity to
:launch, a first-strike. surprise
nuclear attack, - we ::increase the
;sensitivity of the "hair trigger" that
would initiate-such an attack,, said
Arthur Macy Cos; a former CIA
official and presidential consultant
ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT
3 March 1983
They more new weapons we build,
the less secure we become, an
it-expert on Soviet-American relations
-freeze and ''serious talks" with the
Soviets about arms control.
"We don't negotiate with ' the
Russians on the basis of trust, but
rather with the knowledge that an
agreement is in our best interests
and that we have the intelligence
-capability to verity compliance," he
COX ADVOCATES a nuclear
Arthur Macy Cox: 'We are-
likely to blow each-other up
accidentally. _.: That's a
real probability now.'.
"This is a man who understands
power, _ including the - . power. -of
nuclear , weapons. "..I think he
definitely believes in detente and
reduction of nuclear weapons," he
said-
-But the Reagan administration is
also "on an adversarial-course" that
will lead us "'back into the Cold
War," he said.
"THERE ARE some tremendous :1
_? "People hear.: the Soviets are
cheating" on arms: ,control risk-takers. in -.Washington,Cox
agreements, Cox said- But the said. "They have the ideological,
Americans and the Russians are emotional mind-set that we have to
work.to ,destroy the. Soviet; Union.
both satisfied that neither Salt I nor.
..~- i
Salt II has been violated, hesaid They are not pragmatists
"We have- no' need, for on-site. `` ` He-said he was referring to about
inspection- (in' arias control), our 200 "senior experts, civilians in the
information is so good," be said.::; 'Pentagon and State Department" ?
ON-STPE inspection -is- more _' who _,"rode in on a- the Reagan
important in monitoring nuclear test te'a
bans, and the Soviets have agreed to Cox, who was a high-ranking CIA,-,
inspections in a treaty under official from 1952 to 1961 andWas a'
negotiation, he said. SALT II consultant, was in St.: Louis,
Cox gave President 'Reagan . a for a three-day conference .at=..
mixed review for his dealings with' Washington Universityr`.on
the Soviets.. n...a rr-+r r,~r.. disarmaments .; ,aa.w. ; ~.r...+o,..:.
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