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...chief Soviet spokesman will be U.A. Kvitsinsky, a career diplomat with no particular expertise in arms-control talks. The negotiations were long expected: in return for persuading its NATO allies in 1979 to base 572 Pershing II and cruise missiles on European soil as a deterrent to the Soviet arsenal of mobile, multiwarhead SS-20 missiles, Washington pledged to start discussions with Moscow on a mutual whittling down of their theater nuclear forces (T.N.F.) on the Continent. The talks promise to drag on for years, with difficult prospects for agreement. Nonetheless, by at least signaling their willingness to discuss limits...
...area make it suitable for warfare in Western Europe in the event of a Soviet invasion. The S.P.D.'s left-wingers are interpreting the decision as further evidence that Washington, despite its verbal assurances, is not sincerely interested in pursuing negotiations with Moscow to reduce the awesome nuclear arsenal already in Europe. Charged Egon Bahr, their most prominent spokesman: "It has become quite clear that the Americans want to transfer the risk [of nuclear...
Arbatov tries to turn the tables on the U.S. in the debate about vulnerability: "If we're going to talk about that whole issue, then you should recognize our problem as well. We're under a greater threat because a larger part of our strategic arsenal is land-based than yours...
...Kozlov these days because the Soviets have skewed the arithmetic of deterrence by dint of the sheer, simple and very large numbers on their side. In so doing, the U.S.S.R. has left the U.S. with no choice but to balance the strategic equation by making additions to its own arsenal. -By Strobe Talbott
...example, punish a thief by amputation of a hand. In 1970 Gaddafi's Libya became the first Arab oil-exporting country to demand substantially higher prices for crude. Around the same time, Gaddafi struck a deal with the Soviet Union, exchanging oil for what would become an arsenal of highly sophisticated weaponry...