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...Reagan Administration's deepening commitment to a space-based defense system, the Soviets proposed convening a separate round of talks aimed at controlling these weapons alone. The Soviets are more worried about strategic defenses than about new American offensive weapons like the MX. They already have in their arsenal counterparts to the MX, while an all-out competition in defensive systems would require vast new expenditures and a drastic restructuring of their forces. The U.S. refused to negotiate on space alone. The Administration pointed out that the Soviet buildup in offensive weapons and ground-based defenses has upset the superpower...
...arms control alike. In his landmark speech unveiling his Strategic Defense Initiative (S.D.I.) in March 1983, Reagan said that his goal was to make nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete." The Soviets read this not as a utopian dream but as an ominous threat: it was clearly their nuclear arsenal that Reagan most wanted to consign to the ash heap of history. The effect, as they saw it, would be to neutralize Soviet retaliatory forces and thereby make the U.S.S.R. a tempting target for a first strike...
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...include, but Reagan gave a hint at his news conference. The President recalled that in START the U.S. initially proposed extra-deep cuts in heavy land-based missiles and the U.S.S.R. refused because those silo-fired behemoths constitute a much bigger part of the Soviet than of the U.S. arsenal. Now, said the President, "one of the things that we've made clear to the Soviets is that we recognize there may be differences with regard to the mix of weapons on both sides and we're prepared to deal with that problem, and where perhaps we have something that...
...would be a bargaining chip. The implication was that the program could be placed on the table opposite piles of red chips representing Soviet offensive weapons; , then, in a series of elaborate trade-offs, components of Star Wars might be given up in exchange for reductions in the Soviet arsenal...