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...President has sought to reassure the public by pursuing nuclear arms control with the Soviet Union, so far with scant success. Reagan's chief negotiator in the intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF), or Euromissile, talks, Paul Nitze, last week gave the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a nonprogress report. Despite Reagan's proposal for an "interim solution" in INF, Nitze held out little hope for a negotiated settlement before new U.S. missiles are scheduled for installation in Western Europe later this year. Edward Rowny was equally grim in his report to the committee on Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START...
Once again, negotiability be damned. In practice, this principle has meant the pursuit, in INF but more dramatically in START, of the right to carry out on-site inspection within...
...resolution of these tensions should be found in the Oval Office. But Reagan has found it extremely difficult to assert himself as either a moderator or a decision maker. A number of decisions he has announced, including the most recent INF initiative, were compromises jerry-rigged from competing options favored by the different agencies...
...tantalizing new ideas for arms control: "de-MIRVing" schemes that would induce both sides to shift toward more survivable, less threatening, single-warhead missiles; plans that would require trading in two old warheads for every new one added; the notion of merging INF and START. But before bright ideas for the future can have a chance, the accomplishments of the past must be rescued from their current erosion and consolidated by being given the force...
...SALT I, they agreed not to count as strategic weapons the European-based nuclear forces of the U.S. and its allies, even though some of those NATO missiles and warplanes could reach the U.S.S.R. Those are some of the weapons that the Soviets are trying to restrict in the INF talks under way in Geneva...