Five faculty members of the Harvard-MIT Arms Control Seminar predicted last night that nuclear war within the next 25 years is likely unless the United States and the Soviet Union abandoned the arms race and advocated the world-wide non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.

Thomas C. Schelling, Littauer Professor of Political Economy at Kennedy School of Government, told about 80 people at a Cambridge Forum last night that the "features needing most consideration" in the attempt to control nuclear weapons "were the two super powers."

He said nuclear arms control could begin if the two countries were willing to give up nuclear weapons, "the chips of political sovereignty." But said, "It might take 25 years before this particular appetite or addiction to nuclear weapons would disappear."

George B. Rathjens, professor of Political Science at MIT said, "What is frightening is that the United States is setting an example of the power of a military-industrial complex," that is