This statement was made by Randall Forsberg at the National Weapons Freeze Campaign Press Conference on April 26, 1982. In this 2-page statement Forsberg declares that the Reagan administration is wrong on the Soviet margin of superiority. She states that reference to isolated statistics, with no consideration of how the total forces on the two sides might be used in a nuclear war, is simplistic and misleading. She compares then the most widely recognized measures of nuclear strength on the US and Soviet side. She concludes that both sides' nuclear forces are partially vulnerable, but neither can pose threat of a 'disarming' first strike against the other.
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