Brown and White Vol. 100 no. 43

              by scott redington brown and white news writer the possibility of nuclear war bet ween the superpowers is inconceiv able said jack ruina director of the defense and arms control studies pro gram at massachusetts institute of technology the electrical engineering profess or spoke to lehigh students about the possibility of nuclear war and the effectiveness of treaties aimed at cur tailing the arms race he said neither the united states nor the soviet union will attempt a first strike because enough missiles would survive the strike to retaliate and destroy the initiator i think the situation is fantastically stable ruina said he said the initia tion of a first strike is irrational so the threat of nuclear weapons brings stability between the superpowers the first treaty between the two superpowers was the limited test ban treaty of 1963 although initially the goal was to stop all nuclear bomb testing the treaty only put a stop to atmospheric testing underground testing is still legal ruina also spoke about the anti ballistic missile abm treaty an abm system is designed to shoot down incoming missiles acting as a defense against a nuclear attack at this time a successful abm sys tem has not been invented although research continues moscow is defend ed by an abm system but it would not be effective in defending against an all-out nuclear strike he said moscow's system can only shoot down about 100 missiles we have 10,000 so it just won't work said ruina the abm treaty limits each superpower to one abm system the most recent nuclear treaty is the inf agreement ruina said this is the only treaty in which a real reduction in nuclear arms has occurred the see ruina page 2 inf treaty eliminates all u.s inter mediate-range nuclear weapons in europe this treaty does nothing in reality however because it does not include the nuclear weapons of great britain france and nato which means all targets would still be covered ruina said these reductions do nothing in a military sense butin a political sense they help us agreat deal the negotia tions required to ratify such treaties improve relations between the super powers a treaty which would reduce strat egic nuclear weapons by 50 percent is currently in the works according to ruina he said this treaty will still be of no military consequence since all targets will be covered a future pos sibility is extending the test ban treaty to limit the number of tests ruina said it would be a mistake to pursue more nuclear reductions the mx jack ruina defense specialist b4w photo by caroune wes qlirt olihinn q\a/q a ******* wagon rests on a wooded hillside after ollp ollvjlliy dvvdy losing control this weekend due to the wet roads wet weather slick roads cause weekend crashes by caroline west bf own and white managing editor three separate car accidents occurred saturday after noon as a result of slick road conditions caused by the heavy rain all three accidents were on lower sayre park road at the curve between chi psi fraternity and kappa alpha society at approximately 1 p.m a car driven by sabina gallo 91 struck a car driven by steven saul 90 according to lehigh police reports gallo said she slid on the wet road surface lost control and side swiped saul's car two hours later a 17-year-old high school senior who was visiting lehigh lost control of his car hydroplaned and struck the driver's side of a car driven by meghan oregan police reports said oregan was slowing to turn into kappa alpha's driveway when she was hit in both accidents no one was hurt and damage was described as moderate the third accident which was not reported to the police resulted in a station wagon going over the hill and into the woods in back of kappa alpha according to witness reports the station wagon driven by lafayette undergraduate chris lynch slid on the wet road and swerved to avoid another car out of control the car jumped the cement curb in back of delta upsilon fraternity narrowly missing crashing into the guard rail in all three accidents the drivers were going approximate ly 15 m.p.h when they started skidding and lost control th c brown and white 215 758-4181 bethlehem pennsylvania tuesday april 18 1989 lehigh university ruina rules out chances of nuclear war vol.loo n0.43 what's inside a rts leisure japanese indian culture come to lehigh via dance pag 10 ratt headlines triple bill of heavy metal page 11 baseball team loses in extra innings page 15 men's lacrosse drops leopards pagtf 16 w o\a/q livfw v language offerings on the rise along with enrollment page 3 anthropologist analyzes tetevan gelist scandals page 4