Word: inf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Another Talbott report, on the INF negotiations, appeared in TIME, Dec. 5, 1983. His book, Deadly Gambits...
Then the ensuing negotiations collapsed last December, after the Soviets walked out of the parallel talks on Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) to protest the initial deployment of 572 new American Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe. While the problems besetting strategic arms control have been in part a side effect of the impasse in INF and of the downward slide of Soviet-U.S. relations, the strategic talks were never promising in their own right...
...INF: Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces, a term that refers to American weapons in Europe that can reach the U.S.S.R. and Soviet weapons targeted against Western Europe. The superpowers began negotiating about INF, then called Theater Nuclear Forces...
...strong implication was that START, as well as the INF talks, would remain stymied by that Soviet demand. If the Soviet Union is unyielding on that point, there may never be a resumption of serious negotiations...
There are a number of reasons the U.S. cannot and should not remove or even freeze missiles deployed in Europe without adequate Soviet concessions. It was the Soviets who upset the balance in nuclear weapons in the key region of the world covered by INF, principally by the deployment of their triple-warhead SS-20 missiles. Therefore the U.S. and its West European allies are justified in deploying the Pershing IIs and Tomahawks in the absence of a negotiated settlement in INF. Also, the Soviet Union cannot be allowed to veto the implementation of a collective decision of the Western...