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Wednesday, March 28. 1979
University Dally Kansan
Policy reappraisal urged
Staff Reporter
By ROBIN SMITH
The U.S. national security policy has not changed since the end of World War II and needs to be revised, Richard J. Barnet, a former general in the defense Department, said last night.
It is "absolutely essential to stand back and reapprise our national security policy."
Barnet, now a co-director of the Institute for Policy Studies, spoke to more than 150 people about the need to update the security policy of the United States. His speech was sponsored by the Lawrence Coation for Peace and Justice.
"If we do not establish a new national security policy," Barnett said, "it will be
historical example of bringing an illusion into a new world.
“An illusion that peace requires the preparation for war. An illusion that the more terrible weapons a country has, the more security that country's leaders will have.”
BARNET SAID that despite the nearly $2,000,000 said on national security since 1945, the American people were less secure and also less secure than 30 years.
"We have a great fear of a nuclear war," he said. "The reality stares us in the face. Our, our children could be involved in a nuclear war.
"The United States could be utterly destroyed by nuclear weapons—our state of
Barnard and the University States had more
Barnard and the University States had more
9,500 square feet of land for the
9,500 square feet of land for the
invulnerability is gone, we are no longer superior. Our power has slipped away."
If 100 nuclear warheads landed on the Soviet Union, a minimum of 37 million people would be killed and 50 percent of the population employed, according to Pentagon calculations.
"GIVEN THESE realities of the nuclear age," Barnet said, "if the Soviets cannot be deterred by 9,500, it is unclear why they would be deterred by 95,000 or 950,000.
"Having more weapons than another country will not cure our insecurity," he added.
HE SAID THE Vietnam War was an example of the government spending $150-
$200 billion and producing only a "third rate" military power.
Barnet said the United States was wasting resources in the arms race.
"We are putting about 90 percent of our taxes into keeping ahead of the Soviet Union in weapons, while only 10 percent is going toward urgent security problems," he said.
According to Barnet, the United States is making itself less secure by wasting public money on improving education, stopping the bankruptcy of major cities and controlling
"The present national security policy does not reflect the reality of the times," he said. "It is as if we are operating in another day and time."
"We could actually blow up the world in our own time. We have to think about other people—come to terms or destroy ourselves and those around us."
Richard J. Barnet
Staff photo by TRISH LEWIS
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