Optimal Ways to Confuse Ourselves

Autumn 1975

Foreign Policy
No. 20, pp. 170-198

“We have all been waiting for the Great Debate on strategic arms so widely heralded a year ago. But it is hard to conduct any debate, much less a great debate, when language is used with almost no relation to the world it is supposed to describe. Contrast what has been happening to strategic forces and what we say has been happening.”