Word: inf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what is Gorbachev really hawking? Many Americans gloat that INF will force the Soviets to destroy more missiles than we will. But these observers fail to see the treaty's strategic and political significance. The INF treaty is not the bargain it seems because an increasingly denuclearized Europe favors the Soviet advantage in conventional weapons--allowing the Kremlin to use its military superiority to threaten the West in a crisis. The removal of the Pershings will breed NATO infighting over who will bear a heavier defense burden and may portend an eventual American pullout from Western Europe...
Thirteen months after the breakup of the last superpower summit, Gorbachev heads to Washington today for three days of talks with President Reagan and the signing of a treaty to eliminate intermediate-range nuclear missiles (INF) over three years...
...Soviet missile-assembly plant near the Ural Mountains to see what goes in and comes out; Soviet watchdogs will do the same at a U.S. plant in Magna, Utah. With that issue settled, Reagan and Gorbachev on Tuesday afternoon can stage the grand signing ceremony for the INF (intermediate nuclear forces) treaty that is the ostensible reason for the summit...
...limits for specific types of long-range weapons. He adds a very modest hope that "they should be able to start understanding the nature of the verification problem," which would be much tougher to deal with in a START agreement designed to reduce weapons than in an INF treaty that eliminates them altogether...
...particular, Gorbachev seems to have the support of the Soviet military. Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, chief of the Soviet general staff, accompanied Shevardnadze to the meeting in Geneva and, by Shultz's account, was a "key person" in working out the verification measures that clinched the INF deal...