Abstract
Western hopes and Soviet fears of German rearmament are both products of past German military prowess. But Germany has no future as a military power thanks to the industrialization of Russia and the advent of the atomic and thermonuclear age. NATO strategy is unworkable. Muscovite anxieties are irrational. Soviet responses to German rearmament are reviewed and the need for a reappraisal of policy expounded.
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