Prof. J. L. Roberts

Professor J. L. Roberts said that nuclear stalemate has helped preserve peace. "The fact of ultimate weapons of destruction has prevented major confrontation between the United States and Communist States and has made it unlikely that either power would force their policres to a nuclear conclusion. The Soviet Union is now advancing towards affluence and is beginning to realise that extreme Marxism-Leninism is inappropriate to the needs Of the twentieth century."

However. the present nuclear balance is threatened, not by the USA. USSR or even by Communist China, but by proliferation of nuclear weapons among smaller powers, politically unstable and intensely nationalistic, such as India, Egypt or Israel