We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.
The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.
The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.
I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.
I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.