Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-10
Massive Miu|1t
Called No Key
10 Security
BY L. EDGAR PRINA

E. Murray warned today that
the United States win have mo
security as long as we are
prisoners of the moral fallacy"
of total war.
In speech prepared for de-
livery before the Catholic AS
ISOLATION for International Peace
lat Trinity College here, Mr..
Murray asserted that "as long
as we dream of the impos-
sible notion of total victory.
and as long as we cherish the
empty illusion that our national
security is totally repoSed in
massive military might" that
security will remain under
mined.
He urged a reforging of what
he called ,"the forgotten equation
between morality and security"
the Christian tradition Of
limited warfare.
Urges Total War Rejection
The Atomic Energy Commits
sion member demanded rejec-
ton of the bankrupt" doctrine
OF total nuclear war and said:
Man can choose to let the
mad logic of total war dictate
his decisions with regard to mill
tary policies and weapons pro-
grams. This steep slope Of
violence, followed far enough.
leads toward the totally of ruin
implicit in today's technology
cally certain fact: Everybody
can now be killed in war.
Or man can choose to shake
on the hold which this mad logic
has fastened upon his mind. He
can elect to return to the road
OF Justice-to the civilized ira
dition of limited warfare"
Fears War in DIFFERENCE Policy
Mr.. Murray warned that our
present policy of difference of
AGGRESSION may fail, and war re-
suit. Therefore, he continued
the United States must deter
mine in advance the military
policies consistent with civilized
warfare.
He said that not only must we
reject the idea of total nuclear
war but We must not "succumbI
to the deception involved in the
Soviet proposal that all use of
nuclear weapons be outlawed."
According to Mr.. Murray. i'll
simply is not true that any use
OF nuclear weapons means total
war. "A nuclear war can still be
a limited war;" he said. adding:
Furthermore. in the present
situation of international law
leSsneSs a total announcement of
nuclear arm a m ents by the
United States would mean the
betrayal Of our moral tradition
which requires that we should
not abandon the cause of JUS
tice or leave ourselves unpre-
pared to defend it effectively"
Controlling Principles Cited
Mr.. Murray asserted that two
principles must be recognized as
controlling in the use of nuclear
weapons-the military principle
lof necessity and the higher
moral principle of justice in the
use Of force.
1.-THE fatal error that we are
presently in danger of making is
that of allowing weapons to die
tate policy" he said. 1.-THE dam
ger is really twofold-first, lest
we allow weapons technology to
control the weapons program:
and second. lest we allow the
stockpiled results of the weapons
program to control military poll
lcies with regard to the use of
the Stockpile."
Lists 4-POint Solution
The commissioners solution
to the problem, he said, is his
previously stated program of sra
tional nuclear armament" which
he repeated today. The main
points are:
l. We should not build any nu-
clear weapons larger than the
ones We already have. I'VE our
selves must make a responsible
decision with regard to the size
of H-bombs that we undertake to
manufacture"
2. We should set a limit to
the number. as well as to the
size, of the large weapons we ac-
cumulate.
3. We should concentrate in
creasingly on development of
smaller nuclear weapons and
equip ourselves with a wide range
of such weapons.
4. No tests should be made of
weapons which exceed "the up
per limit which we must set to
the size of our nuclear weapons, "
but we should accelerate the
testing Of wide range of smaller
weapons"
Mr.. Murray said his program
provides the opportunity to
choose the road Of justice" and
is a counsel Of military and moral
strength.