SAT passages

 Passage 1 is adapted from Albert Einstein, "Albert Einstein Warns of Dangers in Nuclear Arms Race "@1950 by NBCUniversal Media, LLC. Passage 2 is adapted from Ronald Reagan, "Address to the Nation on Defense and National Security." originally delivered in 1983. The USA and the USSR (the Soviet Union) engaged in a nuclear arms race from the late 1940s through the 1980s. Passage 1 The idea of achieving security throu g h national armament is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion. On the part of the Line U.S.A. this illusion has been particularly fostered by s the fact that this country succeeded first in producing an atomic bomb. The belief seemed to prevail that in the end it would be possible to achieve decisive military superiority. In this way, any potential opponent would be intimidated, and security, so ardently desired by all of us, brought to us and all of humanity. The maxim which we have been following during these last five yea...