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...issue of such rising prominence?and potentially deadly consequences?hinges on two related enterprises: the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's beleaguered plans to deploy 572 new American missiles in Western Europe, and the superpowers' deadlocked negotiations on Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF). Barring a breakthrough in those talks, which resume this week in Geneva, NATO is committed to begin deploying its missiles by the end of this year. If it fails to meet that deadline, the Western Alliance will have demonstrated to itself and to its adversaries that it is incapable of carrying out the most important collective decision...
...American policymaking process (see box). He embarked on a secret exploratory mission with his Soviet counterpart, Yuli Kvitsinsky. The two men came up with a plan that might have broken the bargaining impasse. Nitze would have given up the Pershing II program altogether and had the U.S. deploy enough cruise missiles to offset a greatly reduced force of SS-20s in Europe The purely military rationale of the Pershing IIs had always been the object of debate and doubt. Their range would not permit them to reach Moscow, and the targets that they could hit in the western regions...
...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...