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Last week's meeting at Geneva has committed the Soviet Union and the United States to solve three huge problems in arms control which have individually been insoluble. Is that wise?
When a substantial part of the technical community insists that ballistic missile defence is in some sense feasible, critics of the project should look elsewhere for ammunition.
