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...Carter Administration's military moves, the Kremlin objects most to the decision last year deploy intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe to counter Soviet rockets aimed at the West. Says Oleg Bykov, a top specialist on the U.S. at Moscow's Institute of World Economics and International Relations: "That decision epitomizes the fact that negative forces have got the upper hand in the U.S. Those weapons are targeted on our territory...
...Administration's blunders and mixed signals, is "apprehensive, to put it mildly," about the G.O.P. leader. He adds: "He will find us extremely reluctant to rush headlong with him into a new cold war." Reagan has stated that one of his first items of business will be to deploy the neutron bomb in Western Europe, but the West Germans and other NATO allies have already put the U.S. on notice that they will permit the upgrading of U.S. nuclear weapons on their soil only if Washington remains committed to détente and to the ratification of SALT...
Following a trajectory that minimized passage over land, the shuttle would carry its hot cargo into earth orbit. Then the crew would deploy a giant mechanical arm and guide the nuclear package, together with a booster rocket, out of the cargo bay. After backing the shuttle a safe distance away, the astronauts would fire the booster, kicking the nuclear package out of earth orbit and hurtling it sunward. The booster would be detached and steered back into the cargo bay for return to earth and reuse on further missions, like the shuttle itself. Meanwhile, after a journey of about...
...truly neutral Afghanistan, that would be necessary to give detente new life. The Soviets argue that it is up to Washington to demonstrate its commitment to better relations by, among other things, ratifying SALT II, calling off the boycott campaign against the Moscow Olympics and reversing the decision to deploy medium-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe...
...year, increase ammunition stockpiles and improve defenses against Soviet chemical warfare. Then by the mid-1980s, the allies intend to complete the program's second stage: expand reserve forces, help the U.S. build up stocks of munitions for U.S. units to be dispatched to Europe in an emergency, deploy more electronic jamming devices and remodel civilian aircraft so that they could be converted quickly to carry troops and weapons...