The second evening's theme was " Nuclear Decisions and Arms Limitations," with Philip Farley, R.J. Rummel, and Herbert Scoville as speakers . Two of the speakers disagreed on assessments of the U.S . nuclear strength compared with that of the Soviet Union. One saw us as lagging behind, the other said it was " nonsense" and the third speaker examined in depth the value of strategic arms limitation treaties (SALT) negotiations. Rummel, professor of political science at the U of Hawaii and director of the PATH Institute of Research on International Problems, used charts to back up his argument that America was at the peak of its military might during the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Scoville, who is secretary of the Arms Contro l Association and former Assistant Director for Science and Technology of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, quoted his own figures and said the greatest danger is that systems might become so sophisticated that a nuclear war might start by accident. A former Assistant Secretary of the Atomi c Energy Commission and a Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Disarmament and Atomic Energy, Philip Farley is "convinced we have nothing to fear, and much to gain, from a vigorous and clearheaded pursuit of strategic arms limitations. The Soviets view defense differently than we do, because many Russians remember their country being invaded. They are fearful of our NATO allies on one side and China on the other." The final evening of talks showed speakers stressing that the U .S. and other superpowers must first set an example for the minor nations by limiting armaments, so we can successfully encourage the smaller nations to forego nuclear weapons. Batzel, a University of Idaho graduate, now director of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory at Berkley, said the U .S. must take the lead to reduce the motivation for all countries to acquire nuclear weapons. A former nuclear physicist, Theodore Taylor, urged us to " follow the sun. " Psychologist Douglas DeNike said we should turn our attention to human relationships to cure the kind of thinking that has brought us to the edge of nuclear disaster. Ernest Stranger, senior political off icer of the UN Center for Disarmament, said the questions of proliferation and disarmament can' t be separated. " The big powers will have to make concessions in the area of their own arms in order to get the rest of the world to agree not to develop weapons," he said . Borah committee chairman Amos Yoder prepared a summary statement from the opinions of the 15 scientific and political experts at the symposium which recommends continued negotiations with the Soviet Union to extend the Strategic Arms Limitation agreement, a strengthening of controls over nuclear materials and an agreement among the major powers not to use nuclear weapons against nonnuclear nations.
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