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...beginning in late 1983, the Kremlin will slash its own force of missiles targeted on Western Europe to make it equal to the number of launchers in the British and French forces. That would imply a reduction of 352 Soviet missiles. But only 72 of the 234 modern SS-20s trained on Europe would be included, and these could merely be moved into the Asian part of the U.S.S.R. and quickly brought back and retargeted on Western Europe in a crisis. The remaining 280 cuts would be single-warhead missiles that are obsolete and headed for the scrap heap anyway...
...many missiles as are kept there by Britain and France, and not a single one more." He did not cite any figures, but arms experts interpreted the proposal as an offer to dismantle an estimated 280 SS-4 and SS-5 missiles and reduce the arsenal of SS-20s in Europe to 162, the number of ballistic missiles deployed by France and Britain...
...missile launchers. Their most educated guess was that Moscow would start by dismantling all of its SS-4 and SS-5 missile launchers, which were already slated for removal because they are now out of date. Precisely what the Soviets intend to do with their sophisticated new SS-20s was another question. One possibility is that they might offer to remove as many as 100 SS-20s from Europe. Counting three warheads for each SS-20 removed and one for each dismantled SS-4 and SS-5, the Soviets could claim to have reduced their European arsenal by 580 warheads...
...officials argued that any such Soviet plan would be hopelessly one-sided because it would give Moscow a monopoly on modern missile systems in the European theater. Furthermore, it would provide no guarantee that the mobile SS-20s sent to the far eastern region of the U.S.S.R. would not be brought back to locations from which they could strike Western Europe. Said a Pentagon official: "It's another kind of zero option-zero missiles for the U.S. and hundreds for them. It is just not a serious deal." Washington hard-liners want Reagan to hold out until the Soviets...
...Netherlands. In what became known as the "two-track decision," the ministers decided that the U.S. would simultaneously launch a round of negotiations with the Soviet Union in which the new missiles would be used as a bargaining chip to persuade the Soviets to dismantle their SS-20s. Nonetheless, many West Europeans fear that the deployment scheme will result in an escalation of the arms race. The Reagan Administration has added to European uneasiness with its hard line toward the Soviet Union, particularly with occasionally injudicious remarks about the possibility of fighting a nuclear war in Europe. Says a West...