Word: inf
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...more than 50,000 nuclear warheads, who would have thought the most promising attempt to sharply cut that frightening number could be stalled by a dispute over 72 aging missiles? Such a disagreement has emerged as a major obstacle to a U.S.-Soviet accord on intermediate nuclear forces (INF) that would ban medium- and shorter-range missiles in both Asia and Europe...
Despite the flap, both sides seem eager to reach an INF accord before Reagan leaves office. Optimists were encouraged by two developments last week. One was the announcement that the much delayed meeting between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, widely seen as a prelude to a summit in the U.S. later this year, will begin on Sept. 15. The other was the upbeat tone struck by Kenneth Adelman when he announced his resignation as director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Said Adelman, a skeptical critic of many arms-control proposals...
...weeks the Reagan Administration has been complaining that Soviet foot dragging at the intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) talks in Geneva reduced the odds for an agreement and for a U.S.-Soviet summit before the end of the year. But last week, in the latest in a series of unpredictable diplomatic maneuvers that began at the Reykjavik summit, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev made another surprise shift on arms control that could get the stagnant talks moving -- and reap new propaganda victories for the Kremlin...
Gorbachev used what seemed to be an unlikely medium to unveil his ploy: an Indonesian newspaper, to which he granted an interview. Gorbachev's offer effectively removed one of the last major U.S. conditions for an INF agreement covering not only intermediate-range missiles (with a range of 600 to 3,500 miles) but shorter-range missiles (300 to 600 miles) as well. Until last week Moscow had been willing to agree only to eliminate intermediate- and shorter- range missiles from Europe while insisting on retaining 100 intermediate- range SS-20 missiles in Asia. In return the U.S. would have...
...first blush Gorbachev's latest offer seemed to be a major concession to the U.S. But the fine print contained some troubling details. The Soviets still insist that any INF elimination of shorter-range ballistic missiles must apply to 72 aging German-owned Pershing IAs now deployed in West Germany. Because West Germany is barred from having nuclear weapons, these missiles are tipped with U.S.-controlled nuclear warheads. To go along with Gorbachev's proposal, the U.S. would have to scuttle plans to replace the obsolescent Pershing IAs with more capable, shorter-range versions of the Pershing II. The conversion...