Turn . Guest well, i wouldnt say date that created it, but if i had to pick one date as the epicenter, perhaps, of the turn, it would have been the reykjavik summit in october of 1986, just about five years ago from this fall. Cspan what happened there . Guest in this remarkable event, probably the most remarkable meeting of u. S. And soviet leaders, certainly since kennedys meeting with khrushchev in vienna, reagan and gorbachev and shevardnadze and shultz sat down in a small room in reykjavik over a dining room table and started negotiating over their entire nuclear arsenal. They had on the table to be bargained with the entire stock of Ballistic Missiles in the arsenals of both governments which were the basic weapons underpinning their national power. At the end of the summit reagan even said and i have the quotes authenticated for the first time why dont we just get rid of all Nuclear Weapons . Just get rid of them all. And gorbachev said, yes, lets do that. Lets just get rid of t
Also to probabilities were going to factor in so many things that the risk keeps getting smaller and smaller. So computer modeling aside here youve got a real like accident unfolding and the computer models to my knowledge arent really providing that much reliable information, good information and i gather there was a fair level of disagreement of decisionmakers as to what the best course of action is. Fortunately it doesnt appear that the west coast could have been affected and if that was the case then that probably was a worstcase scenario. Prosco i think going through a lot of what the challenges of working with the models was really the lack and the models are built around knowing where you start. Its almost like playing a game of the novel he and everybody puts their pieces randomly on the board. That was the failing in that situation. People just didnt really know what was coming down. Guest is that because you didnt have the basic information from japan and you came in at at mi
By Dmitry Filipoff
CIMSEC discussed the 1980s Maritime Strategy with Captain Spencer Johnson (ret.), who was instrumental in assembling the first briefed iteration of the Maritime Strategy in 1982. In this conversation, Capt. Johnson discusses how the strategy had to quickly come together to inform Navy programming, how it was received in its initial briefings by senior leadership, and how the Soviet Union reacted to the Maritime Strategy toward the end of the Cold War.
What was your role in OPNAV when the Maritime Strategy got started?
I went back to OPNAV in January of 1982, on completion of a three-year tour in command of USS