With Enough Shovels

December, 1982

With Enough ShovelsA fundamental change has occurred in the U.S. since the election of 1980: Our leaders during the time of Ronald Reagan have come to plan for waging and winning a nuclear war with the Soviet Union, and they are obsessed with a strategy of confrontation--including nuclear brinkmanship--that aims to force the Soviets to shrink their empire and fundamentally alter their society.That obsession has gone beyond the discussion stage. President Reagan had been in office less than a yea...