Volume 31, Number 2 · February 16, 1984
Danger in Moscow
By Seweryn Bialer
Of Time magazine's two 'men of the year,' Ronald Reagan and Yuri Andropov, one consented to an interview. Reagan said: 'I think there is less of a risk and less of a danger [of war] today than there was a few years ago.... Because [then] there was more risk of someone gambling if it did not look as if we could retaliate in any extremely damaging way.'[1] The first statement undervalues both the seriousness of the danger of deteriorating superpower relations in recent years and the potentially explosive consequences of tensions inside the Soviet Union. The second statement may well overestimate the importance of America's military capacity, should the Soviet Union decide to gamble.
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