Word: inf
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...advocated, and the Soviets had rejected, last summer. Moscow at that time proposed bargaining about space weapons like Star Wars; the U.S. insisted any new talks would have to cover offensive weapons too. The Kremlin last week in effect agreed to resume the START (Strategic Arms Reduction Talks) and INF (Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces) negotiations that it broke off at the end of 1983, when the NATO missile deployment began. Moscow had long insisted that the U.S. would have to pull the missiles out as a precondition for new talks, but Gromyko made no such demand last week. Shultz...
Prospects for an agreement on offensive nuclear weapons look somewhat better, though very far from assured. Simultaneous discussion of strategic and ! intermediate-range missiles might afford an opportunity to negotiate complicated trade-offs between different types of weapons that did not exist when the START and INF talks were kept rigidly separate. More immediately, said one U.S. official, Shultz carried to Geneva new "concepts" on offensive weapons "and the Soviets were informed of them...
...equally sure to stick to its position that American and Soviet intermediate- range missiles be limited to equal numbers of warheads. It will again argue that British and French missiles must be left out of the equation because the U.S.--and Britain and France--believes an INF agreement should limit only the arsenals of the superpowers...
...negotiations should be established to cover all types of offensive nuclear weapons. In effect, this would merge two sets of talks that broke off at the end of 1983: the strategic arms talks (START), concerning intercontinental missiles and warheads, and the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces talks (INF), on missiles in Europe. The U.S. presumably would renew its proposals for deep cuts in strategic weapons and roughly equal numbers of medium-range missiles...
...chief U.S. negotiator at the INF (Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces) talks in Geneva, Nitze and his Russian counterpart worked out the now famous "walk in the woods" formula for severe restrictions on the deployment of both U.S. and Soviet nuclear missiles in Europe. It was rejected by both Washington and Moscow, and since the Soviets broke off the INF talks a year ago, Nitze has occupied a fifth-floor office at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), retaining the title of INF negotiator but left with nothing much...