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...Schmidt, unceremoniously popped a stick of chewing gum into his mouth, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev began to deliver his first public statement since President Ronald Reagan offered to cancel deployment of new U.S.-built nuclear missiles in Western Europe if the Soviets would dismantle the counterparts in their growing arsenal...
...Europeans who initially urged the U.S. to develop and deploy the new missiles reasoned that they would offset the growing arsenal of intermediate-range Soviet SS-20s while giving the U.S. bargaining strength in any future arms negotiations. Beginning in 1977, Schmidt led the campaign for the Europeans. In so doing, he was trying to ensure that the U.S. would remain faithful to its pledge, made when the alliance was formed in 1949, to defend NATO's European members...
...C.N.D. is not urging the U.S. to scrap its own nuclear arsenal. "What we are saying to both superpowers," points out Kent, "is that without any more negotiations you could both cut massively into your nuclear stocks without risk because you both have enough for deterrence." The national headquarters of C.N.D. is a few cramped offices in London's seedy Camden Town. Twelve full-time staffers (two of whom are Communists) and 20 volunteers clad in jeans and T shirts stuff envelopes, sort mail and dispatch the leaflets, badges and stickers that have already brought in $200,000 this year...
...Soviet missile arsenal grew, Europeans became concerned that the U.S. would not use nuclear weapons to defend the Continent because of a fear that Moscow would respond by attacking American cities. For some of the allies, the uncertainty grew stronger after Washington's 1963 decision to withdraw 90 intermediate-range Jupiter and Thor missiles from Europe on grounds that the weapons were obsolete. Doubts like these led Charles de Gaulle in 1966 to pull France out of NATO's military organization (although not the alliance) and organize its own nuclear retaliatory force, la force defrappe...
...instead of simply waiting for such welcome though unlikely Soviet contributions to stability, the U.S. can make a few salutary moves of its own. One is to keep arms control alive. The unratified SALT II treaty established modest but significant limitations on the most threatening components of the Soviet arsenal. That is why the Reagan Administration wants to keep the SALT limits in place, even though it vows it can do better in its own negotiations with the Soviets...