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...assumption in Washington has been that only when Moscow accepts the reality of new missiles in Western Europe will it negotiate seriously at the intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) talks in Geneva. The Administration anticipates that deployment will trigger Soviet concessions and restore allied self-confidence. But what if deployment leads to an unhappier result, triggering instead an escalation in Soviet obstreperousness and, consequently, in West European nervousness...
...will be compelled to take countermeasures." If the Andropov proposal was consistent with past maneuvering in the missile game, combining offers of flexibility with threats of escalation, it nevertheless appeared to suggest that the Soviet Union was inching toward a more conciliatory stance in the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) talks scheduled to resume in Geneva next week. For the first time since those negotiations began in October 1980, Moscow sounded ready to discuss numbers of warheads rather than missiles...
There was sound reason for Reagan's guarded response. Andropov's remarks reflected no change in the Soviet demand that British and French nuclear forces be included in the INF arithmetic, a possibility long ruled out by Washington and its NATO partners. Britain and France have always contended that their comparatively small forces are national deterrents that are incapable of defending all of Western Europe or of threatening the Soviet Union with a first strike and, hence, should remain outside any discussions between the U.S. and the Soviets. While praising the Soviet willingness to focus on warheads...
...sure, Gromyko pointed out two other major obstacles to the conclusion of a Soviet-American INF agreement. One is that the United States refuses to place on the negotiating table its forward based aircraft in Europe some 723 planes by Soviet count. The other is the Soviet refusal to include in the Geneva negotiations the SS 20 missiles deployed in the Far East in range of China. Japan and South Korea. The United States has argued that these mobile missiles about 100 by the American count could be moved with in striking distance of Europe...
...major impediment to teaching a Soviet American INF agreement is counting British and French missiles Despite Gromyko's explanation, the real issue is not affixing tags to NATO missiles which read "I am British" or "I am French." The real issue is affixing tags to Soviet SS-20s which read. "I'm headed for Germany...