Deterrence Itself Is Not A Preeminent Value;

A Total Nuclear Freeze Is Counterproductive - Especially Now, When Technology Is Rapidly Changing And The Soviets Have Some Important Strategic Advantages.

There Was No Race - But To The Extent That There Was An Arms Competition, It Was Almost Entirely On The Soviet Side, First To Catch Up And Then To Surpass The Americans.

A Healthy And Fully Functioning Society Must Allocate Its Resources Among A Variety Of Competing Interests, All Of Which Are More Or Less Valid But None Of Which Should Take Precedence Over National Security.

To The Extent That These Advanced Weapons Or Their Components Are Treated As Articles Of Commerce, Perhaps For Peaceful Uses As In The Plowshare Program, Their Cost Would Be Well Within The Resources Available To Many Large Private Organizations.

Nuclear Weapons Are Intrinsically Neither Moral Nor Immoral, Though They Are More Prone To Immoral Use Than Most Weapons.