Word: deploy
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...issue is what stand the U.S. should take when negotiations on limiting nuclear weapons in Europe resume in Geneva Jan. 27. Moscow's negotiators presumably will then formally present an offer already proclaimed publicly by Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov: if the U.S. cancels plans to deploy 572 single-warhead Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe beginning in late 1983, the Kremlin will slash its own force of missiles targeted on Western Europe to make it equal to the number of launchers in the British and French forces. That would imply a reduction of 352 Soviet missiles...
...Geneva talks on intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) in Europe had only been hinting at in their informal discussions with U.S. diplomats. The Soviet Union, Andropov said, would be willing to "reduce hundreds of missiles" aimed at Western Europe if the NATO alliance reversed its decision to deploy 572 Pershing II and cruise missiles in five West European countries starting late next year. According to Andropov, the Soviets would keep in Europe "only as many missiles as are kept there by Britain and France, and not a single one more." He did not cite any figures, but arms experts interpreted...
...said, leave the U.S. without a way "to deter the threat" of any remaining Soviet missiles targeted on Western Europe. In November 1981, Reagan had called on Moscow to dismantle all its intermediate-range arsenal in both Europe and Asia in return for a NATO promise not to deploy new nuclear missiles...
...many as 100 SS-20s from Europe. Counting three warheads for each SS-20 removed and one for each dismantled SS-4 and SS-5, the Soviets could claim to have reduced their European arsenal by 580 warheads, roughly the same number they are asking NATO not to deploy as part of the deal. The 150 or so remaining SS-20s would, by no coincidence, roughly equal the 162 missile launchers in the independent French and British nuclear forces...
...mood in Europe has changed dramatically since 1979, when, in response to concerns first put forward by then West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, NATO ministers voted to deploy the new American weapons in West Germany, Britain, Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands. In what became known as the "two-track decision," the ministers decided that the U.S. would simultaneously launch a round of negotiations with the Soviet Union in which the new missiles would be used as a bargaining chip to persuade the Soviets to dismantle their SS-20s. Nonetheless, many West Europeans fear that the deployment scheme will result...