(15.11.1981) In April 1978, Ronald Reagan, then a future Presidential candidate, stepped into the fray. He declared that the new bomb was “the first weapon that‘s come along in a long time that could easily and economically alter the balance of power. It could be the ideal deterrent.“ President Carter eventually set the plan aside, but last summer the Reagan Administration decided to go ahead with it. This move raises yet again the problem – and with it the heated, emotional controversy and debate – of how to defend Europe in the atomic age without destroying it.