ABSTRACT
Security today requires not only the genuine removal of threat but also removal of the sense of threat. So national security must not only take into account threats that are actual and real but also imagined threats. The approach of the Soviet Union and other Socialist countries to confidence- and security-building measures (CSBM) was determined from the very beginning by the deterioration of the military situation and by the increased risk of military confrontation in Europe. The zone of application of the CSBM’s mandate “covers the whole of Europe as well as the adjoining sea areas and airspace”. The proposals of the neutral and nonaligned countries deserve special attention, the US representative wrote recently, because they have helped to define the centre of gravity of the Stockholm Conference.
