Is the best protection in the nuclear age a serious arsenal and the will to regard it

seriously? Or is it trust in the Soviet Union? A crackling exchange, with our guests

coming from every point on the compass. One sample: PN: "The best way to phrase it, it seems to me, was to look at the question whether it is better to be Red than dead.... I'm inclined to think it is better to be Red than dead, if that is the question, but I think that shouldn't be the question.... What we've tried to do over the entire period from 1946 to the present is to so conduct affairs that that would not be the question...." RB: "I don't think that one can assume that a Russian planner or an American planner is going to look at this military balance in the same way." PN: "I spent five years talking to those fellows and I think I have an impression as to how they look at it, and I don't believe it's inconsistent with what I've said."