Soviet military strength
Sir, — I respectfully suggest to your correspondent, M. Creel (“The Press,” February 13) that cynical traditions are not confined to Western Governments. If N. was formed before the Warsaw Pact alliance, so what? If we were capable of taking a step-by-step investigation backwards to the point at which either of the super-Powers could be proved to everyone’s satisfaction to be the one and only villain in the piece, where would such an exercise get us? Having all but reached the point of no return, it is utterly futile to say that one side or the other is convinced of its own superiority or survival. In the event of a nuclear holocaust, few will remain to argue this issue and the hundreds of millions of dead, like the war victims of man’s past insanities, will have no vote as to who was right or who was wrong. — Yours, etc., ARTHUR MAY. February 13, 1978.
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