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...already in place, thereby eliminating any need for new NATO missiles. What the Federal Chancellor did was persuade the Secretary of State of the necessity to include the zero option [whereby, in return for the dismantling of all Soviet SS-20s targeted on Europe, the U.S. would not deploy new medium-range missiles] in the Western formula for the negotiations. For two years Chancellor Schmidt has considered the zero option a desirable basis of reciprocity. The precondition for a zero option of the West has to be the Soviet readiness to dismantle...
...part of a $180 billion modernization of America's nuclear forces, a program that would upgrade all three legs of the nation's strategic triad of air, sea- and land-based nuclear weapons. With Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger at his side, Reagan said he plans to deploy at least 100 MX missiles, which are capable of traveling 8,000 miles and dropping their warheads within 100 yards of a target. The first ones will be ready by 1986. But the President scuttled the much criticized "shell game" plan, first proposed by former President Jimmy Carter. Under that scheme...
...Soviets will be able to deploy laser weapons against planes and troops by the mid-1980s...
...four years ago, the Red Army Faction has dwindled to about 30 as a result of arrests, deaths in clashes with police and desertions from the cause. Despite their limited numbers, say West German officials, the terrorists want to exploit the wave of protest against the NATO decision to deploy U.S. medium-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe...
That is where the ABM comes in. Proponents say it would significantly reduce the Soviet Union's chances of destroying all the MX missiles on a first strike. But to deploy ABMs would scuttle one of the most significant achievements of arms limitation talks--a ban on ABMs--and would prompt a costly ABM race. Relying on ABMs would also defy good sense. They were abandoned in the first place because they lead to destabilization of the delicate strategic balance and because they are unreliable; ABM technology has reportedly not advanced to a point where an ABM system would...