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...Soviet insistence on maintaining a balance of Soviet INF against British French INF is to pose a distinct nuclear threat to West Germany outside the Soviet-American balance of both INF weapons and strategic nuclear forces. In his press conference of early April, 1983 Soviet foreign minister Gromyko justified such a separate Soviet INF-British French INF balance in purely nuclear terms...
...Imagine," suggested Gromyko, "that a terrible tragedy has occurred and that say, a nuclear-armed British missile is in flight. Should it carry a tag. 'I am British'? Or imagine," Gromyko continued, "a French missile flying Perhaps it will also carry a tag saying. 'I am French, I should not have been included in the count...
...sure, Gromyko pointed out two other major obstacles to the conclusion of a Soviet-American INF agreement. One is that the United States refuses to place on the negotiating table its forward based aircraft in Europe some 723 planes by Soviet count. The other is the Soviet refusal to include in the Geneva negotiations the SS 20 missiles deployed in the Far East in range of China. Japan and South Korea. The United States has argued that these mobile missiles about 100 by the American count could be moved with in striking distance of Europe...
...eminently logical. According to Moscow, the U.S. idea of trading Soviet SS-20s against a NATO promise to deploy fewer Pershing II and cruise missiles in Europe would still leave the Soviet Union vulnerable to a surprise strike from British and French nuclear forces. Said Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko last month: "Imagine that a terrible tragedy has occurred and that, say, a nuclear-tipped British missile is in flight. Should it carry the tag I AM BRITISH? And if it delivers its charge, people will die just as they would die from any other missile...
...past year or so, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and other Soviet officials have hinted at flexibility about permitting some sort of "cooperative measures," perhaps including very limited on-site inspection, in future agreements. But it is virtually inconceivable that the Kremlin would grant the U.S. a carte blanche search warrant to inspect not just launch sites but perhaps storage areas and even production facilities...