Word: approached
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...skepticism about Ronald Reagan's proposed Strategic Defense Initiative. Yet he does not favor the Soviet negotiating position that makes an arms-agreement "package" dependent on what amounts to U.S. abandonment of sdi. Mikhail Gorbachev's latest proposal of a separate agreement on intermediate-range nuclear forces appears to approach this position...
...session on antiballistic-missile (ABM) defense and the Strategic Defense Initiative, the third at a session on the problem of banning underground tests ((a so-called comprehensive test ban, or CTB)). I attach special significance to the second of the talks, in which I came out against the "package" approach, whereby the U.S.S.R. is strictly linking agreements on nuclear weapons reductions to conclusion of an SDI agreement. Another important statement was on the safety of nuclear power, in my third speech. I would like there to be a broad public discussion of these issues...
...fact the situation of which we are speaking here ((a superpower's willingness to "go nuclear" in a crisis)) is without precedent. For this reason, I would be hard put today to name a specific level ((of strategic nuclear weapons at which war would be "thinkable")). It may even approach the level of what we think of now as mutual assured destruction! In any event, this question can be postponed until after a 50% reduction has been implemented ((with a "priority" on reductions in first-strike weapons, such as fixed-site ICBMs...
...believe that the package approach can and should be revised. A significant cut in ICBMs and medium-range and battlefield missiles, and other agreements on disarmament, should be negotiated as soon as possible, independently of SDI, in accordance with the lines of the understanding laid out in Reykjavik ((presumably with the additional feature of priority cuts in silo-based MIRVed ICBMs)). I believe that a compromise on SDI can be reached later. In this way the dangerous deadlock in the negotiations could be overcome. I shall try to analyze the ideas that led to the package approach and demonstrate their...
...shall now proceed to the central question of the package approach. A seemingly serious argument is cited in defense of the package principle: imagine that the U.S.S.R. abandons the package and agrees to a substantial cut in strategic missiles, while the U.S. maintains its freedom to deploy SDI and at a certain point begins launching SDI components into space -- in the version proposed by Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, for example ((Weinberger eight weeks ago called for early deployment of a preliminary SDI, including some space-based components)). Weinberger's project envisions the development of a network of space stations...