Word: deployable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet counterpart, Yuli Kvitsinsky, are being conducted behind a veil of secrecy, West Europeans have been watching assiduously for any hint, wink or nod that might reveal how the talks are progressing. Reason: one of the most emotionally charged issues of the 1983 international calendar, namely whether NATO will deploy 572 new U.S.-built nuclear missiles starting next year to respond to the buildup of Soviet intermediate-range SS-20 missiles aimed at Western Europe. What NATO will do hinges on the outcome of the negotiations; so when word was leaked from Washington last week that the Soviets had floated...
...Soviet negotiating position surfaced last month just as the latest session of the talks on intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) was drawing to a close. The Soviet negotiators still rejected President Reagan's proposal for a "zero option," under which NATO members would reverse their decision to deploy new nuclear weapons if the Soviets dismantled all 333 of their SS-20s everywhere in the U.S.S.R., including the far east, plus the 280 aging SS-4 and SS-5 missiles. Instead, during informal chats over coffee and orange juice, the Soviets let it be known that they might consider removing...
...week's end Reagan finally bowed to congressional realities. He announced that he was willing to delay indefinitely any final decision on how to deploy the MX. Meanwhile, he argued, the Senate should approve production funds for the MX, and the House should reconsider its rejection of those funds so that no time is lost in the missile's possible deployment. Said he: "I welcome a vigorous debate on the best way to base the missile...
...President needs a clear sense of priorities. Reagan has the ability to concentrate his energies and the country's attention. Detractors might say this was because he has less energy to deploy. Carter had prodigious energy and diffused it too widely. Presidents should have the knack for keeping three or four balls in the air, but not the urge to toss
...case. The American rebuttal that Dense Pack silos are shelters rather than launchers is pure casuistry. But that is not the biggest problem. Because hundreds of the new ICBMS would substantially increase the vulnerability of the Soviet Union's fixed-site ICBMS, the Kremlin might be induced to deploy a new generation of mobile ICBMS. Land-mobile missiles are a nightmare for both defense planning and arms control. Precisely because they can be moved around and hidden, they complicate the other side's confidence that treaty limits are being observed. (SLBMS, by contrast, are mobile and virtually invulnerable...