Word: arbatov
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...Georgy Arbatov, the chief Kremlin adviser on American affairs, other Soviet officials and American diplomats met the delegation...
...weapons to an unreliable China that still speaks of the inevitability of war. At the same time, the Russians seem willing enough to accept the normalization of relations between the U.S. and China, so long as the new friendship does not produce a tacit anti-Soviet alliance. Warns Georgi Arbatov, a Soviet expert on U.S. policy: "You cannot reconcile detente with attempts to make China some sort of military ally of NATO." A Western diplomat also cautioned: "I wonder if an economically and militarily powerful China by the year 2000 would be an unmitigated blessing for American interests. Would...
Moscow's new appreciation of Carter was expressed last week by one of the U.S.S.R.'s most prominent experts on U.S. affairs, Georgi Arbatov, director of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies. Sipping Georgian brandy in his spacious office several blocks from the Kremlin, Arbatov discussed key issues with a few U.S. newsmen, including TIME Correspondent Christopher Ogden. Excerpts...
...warheads are carried by land-based missiles that would be vulnerable to the Mk-12A (in contrast, more than 60% of the 8,500 American warheads are mounted on Poseidon and Polaris missiles in submarines). Understandably, the Soviet Union is concerned about the new American warheads. Last week Georgy Arbatov, head of Moscow's U.S.A. Institute, which analyzes American affairs and advises the Kremlin, was spreading the word in Washington that the upcoming improvements were more worrisome to him than the advanced U.S. ICBM-the M-X- which still exists only on paper, or the cruise missile, which...
...While Arbatov obviously overestimates the advantages of Soviet trade to the U.S. economy, the fact is that détente has proceeded from mutual need and desire. Who has benefited from détente so far? Some top U.S. officials argue that beginning with the help Washington received from Moscow in extracting American forces from Viet Nam, it is the U.S. that has benefited far more. Perhaps-but the accounting is complex and far from conclusive. A score card on the progress of détente...