Word: inf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NATO allies have flinched at Reagan's attempts to play down expectations for progress on arms control, and there are indications that Gorbachev has ordered his negotiators to pull out all stops in seeking a general statement of principles or perhaps an interim accord on Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) based in Europe. One American official remarked that it all reminded him "of what Dr. Johnson said about the prospect of being hanged in a fortnight: 'It concentrates the mind wonderfully...
...Soviets climbed on an old and familiar hobbyhorse by insisting that American intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) capable of hitting the Soviet Union be counted--and accordingly limited--as "strategic" weapons. All American Pershing II missiles in West Germany and Tomahawk ground-launched cruise missiles in Western Europe, plus many carrier-based and land-based tactical aircraft in Europe and Asia, would be counted as strategic. Soviet medium-range bombers, on the other hand, would not be counted, nor would the Kremlin's intermediate-range missiles, most notably the triple-warhead SS-20, even though they could wipe out Western...
...sides spent a total of 54 hours in three sets of discussions: strategic arms reduction talks (START), which involve intercontinental ballistic missiles; intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF), which focus on European-based nuclear weaponry; and space weapons, dominated by Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also called Star Wars. To the discouragement of U.S. negotiators, Chief Soviet Negotiator Victor Karpov opened with demands that were unchanged from the last set of talks, which ended in late 1983 with Soviet walkouts. These included a proposal for long- range missiles that Washington contends is unresponsive to a U.S. offer to trade...
Glitman and Obukhov will be the point men on intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) negotiations, which deal mostly with weapons deployed in Europe. Tower and Karpov will square off over intercontinental ballistic missiles in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks. Kvitsinsky and Kampelman will confront each other on the touchiest issue in the negotiations, space weapons. The Soviets hope to knock out President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, better known as Star Wars, while it is still in the research stage. The overall American posture, by contrast, is to reduce existing offensive weapons and worry at a later date about placing...
...Belgium, which has been debating whether to deploy U.S. cruise missiles. To ensure that the basing plan went ahead, Kampelman, Tower and Glitman lobbied Prime Minister Wilfried Martens during a day trip to Brussels on Monday. On Friday, Martens announced Belgium would proceed because an accord on limiting INF missiles would be "impossible in the short term"; hours later, the first cruises arrived in the country...