Senator Gore was Chairman of the Subcommittee on International Organization and Disarmament and a leading proponent of the proposed treaty to ban anti-ballistic missiles as a defensive measure. Mr. Burnham had been a leading anti-Communist strategist for thirty years. This show explores ABM in particular and nuclear deterrence in general. JB: "It seems to me that the history of relations between nations shows that the road to national suicide is very often laid by over attention to what one thinks the motives and intentions of the enemy are." ... AG: "We need, my friend Mr. Buckley, mankind needs to develop a formula for coexistence. Unless we can find a formula by which nations can live together in peace-" WFB: "Vote for peace." AG: "-then we are going to have nuclear holocaust." WFB: "Let's skip that." AG: "How can we skip it? That's what it's about." WFB: "Well, because it's so obvious ..." JB: "Of course from one point of view it might not be so obvious. We've had nuclear arms for a generation and not had nuclear war."