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Reagan's determination to exorcise the demons of Alamogordo and Hiroshima explains the insistence in the strategic concept that defenses too must be nonnuclear. Some of Reagan's own Star Wars planners privately feel that the language of the document is too restrictive, since some possible schemes for S.D.I. would require nuclear explosions in order to work (see following story). While Reagan takes seriously the goal of a nuclear-free world, most members of his Government still do not. "It's there in our rhetoric because the President wants it there, and he's the boss," says a Pentagon official...
...strategic concept has an answer to that question, a highly problematic one. The document envisions a "period of transition," starting around 1995, during which both sides would still have their offensive nuclear missiles. Those weapons would be protected by a latter-day version of ABMs called ballistic missile defense, or BMD. If American missiles and command centers were effectively guarded with radar-guided interceptors and death rays that could destroy incoming warheads, the Soviet Union would never be tempted to think that it could disarm and decapitate the U.S. with a pre-emptive strike. In principle, the Soviets could have...
...should be considered, he needed another ally of standing, one who shared Reagan's moral distaste for those cocked nuclear pistols. That ally turned out to be Admiral James Watkins, Chief of Naval Operations. Late in 1982 McFarlane and Watkins consulted informally. The product of those talks was a document, known to insiders as the "freedom from fear" briefing paper, conveying McFarlane's views over Watkins' name...
Mubarak's initiative grew out of an accord signed by Arafat and Jordan's King Hussein in Amman last month. That agreement, which el Baz helped draft, is an ambiguous document that calls for a joint Jordanian-P.L.O. delegation to negotiate for Palestinian rights within "the proposed confederated Arab states of Jordan and Palestine." Though the accord does not specifically demand the creation of a separate Palestinian state, it offers little incentive to Israel to enter negotiations. Hussein and Arafat call upon Israel to withdraw from all occupied Arab territory--the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem and the Golan...
...prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. More than 90 other nations have similar arrangements with the IAEA, including the U.S., which signed an inspection agreement in 1980. Moscow did not agree to the idea in principle until 1982, and subsequent negotiations on the actual terms of the new document took 16 months. How important a concession is the accord? That may depend on what Soviet facilities have been opened for inspection: the latest, advanced civilian nuclear plants, or merely old, outdated ones...