ly in a variety of ways. Technology, military capability, and internal factors of governance and political persuasion all make an appearance in the government-security debate. During the Cold War, the issue of government security was connected principally to the nuclear arms race, although there was also a view that security involved more than military muscle:
«LS1»«RM68»«IP5,5»National security does not and cannot depend on military power along. . . . There is no technical solution to the paradox of growing military power and decreasing national security. A nation's security depends upon its overall position in the world--on its political and economic strength as well as its military power, its diplomacy and foreign trade, its alliances and associations, and on the character and quality its internal life. Security depends in addition on the general state of international relations, upon whether or not a nation has powerful enemies, and upon the character and policies of its enemies. Security, in short, is not merely a military and techno
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