We are proud to count him among our authors.-THE EDITORS He was a Professor in Residence of Political Science and Senior Fellow in the National Security Studies Program at UCLA in 1963 and is a consultant to the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He has actively participated in most of the major arms-control and disarmament conferences in this country and abroad, including the Pugwash Conferences in Moscow and London, the Arden House Strategy for Peace Conferences, several meetings of the American Assembly, the Stowe (Vt.) Conference of Scientists on World Affairs, and the Accra Assembly in Ghana. He is on the Board of Sponsors of the magazine War/Peace Report, the Board of the magВazine Disarmament and Arms Control, and the Advisory Board of the Journal of Arms Control.

He was an original member of the Committee on Security Through Arms Control of the National Planning Association. He is a long-time member of United World Federalists and has served on its National Executive Council. More importantly, he has a long record of activity and interest in the problems of peace as well as war. Katz is a physicist and an outstanding expert on aerial and space reconnaissance, first with the Air Force and now with the RAND Corporation. The author of the following study possesses unimpeachable credentials. This is not solely because we believe his theories to be specious, but because we believe them to be dangerously so in that they are capturing the fancy of certain members of Congress and also that of other policy-makers and -molders. Seymour Melman, of Columbia University, we are making an exВception. This magazine rarely devotes its limited space to detailed refutation of theories and proposals of a single individual.

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