Beyond the Nuclear Freeze:
Jordan, Patrick
Beyond The Nuclear Freeze by Robert F. Drinan, Seabury, $7.95, 170 pp. This book by the Jesuit law professor and former congressman is a short history of arms control cum handbook for advocates of...
...That legislation was damningly reversed after the recent destruction of the South Korean airliner...
...It demands concrete action...
...The parable for space technology may have been set by that first star-gazer Thales: for a while it may get you a corner on something like the olive trade, but it tends to make you forget what'son the ground the fall into the well from which there may be no returning...
...Militarily, it offers little to deter, much to encourage a traditionally paranoid Kremlin to believe a surprise attack might work, and much in the offing to make the Russians, despite any momentary lead they may now have, feel insecure for the future...
...It poses hard questions for freeze advocates in terms of raw politics and the military consequences of a freeze...
...This book by the Jesuit law professor and former congressman is a short history of arms control cum handbook for advocates of the nuclear freeze...
...It states the variety and gravity of the issues at play moral, legal, economic, strategic...
...Father Drinan cautions that the vast enthusiasm for the freeze movement in 1982 could evaporate if world events were to inflame America's deep anti-Soviet instincts...
...Those instincts, he states, are "profound, pervasive, and perhaps paranoid...
...He underscores the heady complexities of nuclear negotiations with the acid tension of nuclear angst: "One of the most disconcerting elements in the present nuclear situation is the certainty that there is no certainty about what the next development will be...
...Hence the U.S...
...In his book Father Drinan proposes Congress's 1982 refusal to approve funding for binary biological and chemical weapons as a model and linchpin for regulating and then reducing super weapons of all kinds...
...Star Wars" Prospects . . . The new generation of space technology holds as much peril as promise...
...This is exemplified by recent events...
...He calls for acting on all fronts, but himself is left high on the fence between being prophetic or' 'practical.'' His book is one of high and necessary aspirations...
...The present course assures nightmare...
...Commonweal, October 22, 1982 Father Drinan sees detente as the only means of avoiding nuclear disaster...
...PATRICK JORDAN...
...It is strong on questions, thin on solutions...
...negotiators at the Geneva START talks have every reason to expect the Russians are as eager as we ought to be to resume negotiations for an arms accord on anti-satellite weapons suspended after the invasion of Afghanistan...
Vol. 110 • October 1983 • No. 18
