Volume 30, Number 6 · April 14, 1983
The Delusions of Deterrence
By Emma Rothschild
Department of Defense Annual Report to the Congress, Fiscal Year 1984
by Caspar W. Weinberger
US Government Printing Office, 350 pp., $8.00
For 1984, the Department of Defense's project is the moral regeneration of nuclear weapons. Secretary Caspar Weinberger's annual report for the 1984 fiscal year is said to have been 'painstakingly composed' at the Defense Department and 'reviewed' by President Reagan. Its purpose, apparently, is to 'combat the impression in some quarters that President Reagan takes too lightly the possibility of nuclear war,' and to 'reassure members of the antinuclear movement in the United States and abroad.'[1]
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