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...this situation, said Joseph Biden, a Democratic Senator from Delaware, there is a vital need to maintain the credibility of the alliance so that the Soviets will realize they must talk seriously. Said Biden: "If the Russians saw God and God said, 'They're really going to deploy,' the Russians would negotiate." But West European panelists were not convinced. They feared that just as the West German election did not settle the controversy over Pershing Us in Germany, so NATO missile deployment itself, carried out gradually over a period of tune, will not necessarily persuade the Soviets...
Although there was general agreement on the need to deploy the new NATO missiles on schedule, Karsten Voigt, West German Social Democratic Party spokesman for foreign and security affairs, suggested the possibility of postponement, even without a deal with the Soviets in Geneva. Voigt called the deterrent value of the Pershing II "greatly exaggerated" and said its mission could soon be taken over by conventional weapons. Joining in the challenge, Healey questioned the overall U.S. assessment of superpower balance. The U.S., Healey claimed, was well ahead in the number of warheads, and in any case, he noted, "I doubt that...
...meeting in Guadeloupe in January 1979, Carter, Schmidt, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and British Prime Minister James Callaghan examined ways in which to respond to the new Soviet weapons. Carter reportedly proposed to offset the SS-20s by deploying U.S. Pershing II and ground-launched cruise missiles in Western Europe. Giscard and Callaghan backed the idea, but Schmidt, who by then deeply mistrusted Carter, was at first skeptical. Giscard has told TIME that it was he who proposed the formula that ultimately won Schmidt's approval: a simultaneous U.S. offer to open negotiations with the Soviet...
...Soviets are largely to blame for casting doubt on both halves of that proposition and thus upsetting the strategic balance. The U.S. was the first to develop and deploy MIRVs (a breakthrough some of its own authors now regret), but the single most destabilizing development in the recent round of military competition between the superpowers was the seemingly open-ended acquisition of more and more MIRVed iCBMs by the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces from...
Equally, Mitterrand had little to fear from the Soviets, if only because his relations with them already were chilled. The President has criticized Soviet policy in Afghanistan and Poland while supporting the controversial NATO decision to deploy medium-range U.S. missiles in Western Europe...