Word: deployable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...salvo in a hastily arranged twelve-day, seven-country public relations blitz calculated to win the hearts and minds of the growing number of Western Europeans troubled by the missile issue. Their major concern: that U.S. rigidity in negotiating an arms control agreement with Moscow would mean almost certain deployment of 572 U.S. Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe beginning at the end of the year. Bush's task is formidable. He will strive to present a "flexible" U.S. commitment to arms control while asking the Europeans to support the original U.S. bargaining position, President Reagan...
...close to the other end of the spectrum: almost any agreement is better than none and any agreement that significantly limits the SS-20s is probably a good one or at least the best that can be hoped for, given the apparent shakiness of NATO's resolve to deploy the Pershing IIs and cruise missiles. If the talks fail, the West European governments are going to have to be able to claim the U.S. negotiated in good faith and that the failure was because of Moscow...
...Soviet missiles in question are entirely in the U.S.S.R., but the American ones are supposed to be deployed on the territory of third countries. That has given those countries a de facto veto over the American negotiating position since the U.S. cannot deploy missiles without the host nation's say-so. Moreover, it has presented the Soviets with a golden opportunity to play the U.S. off against its allies...
...Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces. The Kremlin has sunk billions of rubles into developing it, training its crews and getting it in place. There was no way that Moscow would agree to dismantle every one of these missiles in exchange for "paper" reductions of missiles that the U.S. had not deployed and might not be able to deploy, given the turmoil in Western Europe. Besides, it goes very much against the grain of the Soviet military to dismantle even antique weapons in accordance with deals that their diplomatic comrades make with the U.S.S.R.'s principal adversaries. Only very reluctantly...
Even if Kohl wins the coming elections, his margin could be razor thin. Still, Kohl insists he will regard any victory as a mandate to deploy NATO missiles if the Geneva negotiations should collapse...