Soviet military strength
Sir, —How can R. Oppenheim deny that N.A.T.O. initiated the arms race when it was formed in 1949, six years before the Warsaw Pact alliance, in 1955? Conceding, for argument’s sake, that his figures of 22,000 tanks for the Warsaw Pact and 6800 for N.A.T.O. are correct, they merely demonstrate the stupidity of N.A.T.O.’s military planners (the United States Command) in choosing a battle ground where they are geographically disadvantaged. From the consequences of Nazi aggression in June, 1941, when Stalin committed the blunder of denuding the Soviet Union’s western frontiers so as to give Hitler no provocation to attack, Soviet military thinking now is that any war resulting from N.A.T.O. aggression will be fought on N.A.T.O’s territory. Today’s cable news reports (“The Press,” February 15) that the Soviet Union will follow the United States’ initiative in deploying the neutron bomb, if President Carter persists in his folly.—Yours, etc.,
M. CREEL. February 15, 1978.
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