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An exchange of letters between E.P. Thompson and Vaclav Racek
“Nuclear weapons may be justified within a theory of “deterrence”, but this is not the same as self-defence. And they are so justified, in almost identical terms, by the military and political spokesmen of both blocs. Both blocs talk in terms of military “balance”, of matching each others’ weaponry at every level (but every level is higher with every passing year), and (in their saner moments) of “arms control” ‘which is, however, nothing to do with disarmament but concerns only the
reciprocal regulation of the never-ending upwards thrust.”
