Monday, May 13, 1963
University Daily Kansan
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CD Shelter
(Continued from page 2) above and beyond regular defense expenditures.
Some say that legislators refuse to spend that much money for fear their constituents would rebuke them at the polls. While Congressmen are guided by such considerations, it is doubtful that their refusal to spend $90 billion is explicable solely in terms of reluctance to spend. Other programs which are termed vital are not stopped for lack of money.
THERE IS a more likely reason why the shelter program has been virtually closedet: Defense authorities doubt that even a $90 billion shelter program would provide meaningful protection.
Hermann Kahn, a recognized scholar of this problem, says that even if adequate shelters were provided, they would be pointless. Kahn maintains that it is senseless to preserve the population through a nuclear holocaust only to be saving them for an afterlife in the rubble of what once was civilized society. Kahn's opinion of what life would be like after nuclear war is wrapped up in his now famous statement—
"The living might well envy the dead."
Therein lies the essence of why the nation's leaders have, all but in pronouncement, deserted shelter development plans. It has been admitted by civil defense authorities that the once-heralded evacuations of cities is a pipe dream that would only place the people in lines of traffic during the attack rather than in their homes.
CIVILIAN DEFENSE has been deserted because authorities believe it won't work and because it detracts from working toward the desired end: prevention of nuclear war.
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In place of half measures, which present near-insoluble problems, the emphasis is placed on deterring a nuclear war. The security of the free world appears to be maintained by widely scattered submarines and underground concrete silos which house missiles.
The key to this defensive posture is the belief that these submarines and underground silos are invulnerable to any attack. That is, the enemy could attack first and our capability to strike back would survive.
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THIS DEFENSIVE policy further relies on the enemy's being convinced that if they attack, they will suffer in kind—regardless of first strike advantages.
There are other plausible reasons to hope that hundreds of years of civilization will not be wiped out in nuclear war.
If it is true that nations act only in manners which can reasonably be expected to serve self interests, the likelihood of calculated nuclear war diminishes. It would serve no national interest to obliterate an enemy Nation. To "gain" dominion over a cinder crisp is of no value.
AND EVEN if Russia were to decide that it would settle for ruling a world minus an inhabitable North American continent and its resources, the likelihood of retaliation would provide reason to hesitate.
Degrees of nuclear victory are implausible. There would be small solace in ruling a half-destroyed nation fortified with the satisfaction that the enemy was completely devastated.
Our only shelter program is the hope that all nations regard nuclear war as totally impractical.
Superficial—Not Insincere
Editor:
I do not intend to defend the claims of either Miss Tecon or Miss Haddad. Perhaps the confusion created by the words "American insincerity" can be clarified by a means of compromise. If instead of "insincerity" Miss Haddad used the word "superficial." I am sure that more people concerned will have been happier.
The superficial attitude that most Americans adapt in their interpersonal relationship with the foreign students is reasonable and not very hard to understand especially if we (the foreign students) put
To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
Short Ones
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... Letters ...
William Saroyan
If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is then no longer a thief.
One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in Kind" somewhere else in life.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Something compels us into the terrible fallacy that man is desirable and there's no escaping into truth. —Christopher Fry
ourselves in their shoes. Who among us will give ourselves abandonly to a stranger not to mention an alien why may, for all intents and purposes, not sympathize with our own feelings and beliefs? I for one would be very afraid to show all of my feelings to someone I meet casually first because I wouldn't know how commonly we stand on the same ground and secondly because I would want to leave out something in order to make the other person more interested and come back. It is only through several meetings and personal interactions that two people can understand each other and develop a deep-seated friendship hence, drop the cloak of pretense.
I do not blame the Americans to be superficial at all because I do
not blame them to shy away from becoming victims of expectation discrepancies. Finally, this attitude is perhaps an off-shoot of their culture and the "fast" way they live their life. We just have to accept it as we would accept hotdogs and hamburgers and adjust to it if we expect to make our stay here in the United States worthwhile, happy and with less heartbreaks.
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