Word: kremlin
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...argot of nuclear weapons, this power is known as throw weight, the ability to hurl a payload. The Soviets now have about 5.7 million kilograms of ballistic-missile throw weight, while the U.S. has a mere 2 million kilograms. The Soviet proposal offered last week would reduce the Kremlin's throw weight to no more than 3 million kilograms, according to an analysis for TIME by Ted Warner, an arms-control expert at the Rand Corp...
...Soviets did not budge, however, on their opposition to Star Wars. In fact, the formal Soviet proposal appeared to retreat from Gorbachev's suggestion to TIME last month that the Kremlin might at least agree to permit "fundamental" research on space-based defense systems. The Soviet proposal stipulates a prohibition on "development (including scientific research) of space strike weapons." In Geneva, Karpov did leave a little maneuvering room by stating, with studied ambiguity, that "we're not against basic research--we never were. We are against research that leads to the creation of space strike weapons." If the Soviets insist...
...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 Europe. By adding up virtually all "forward-based" U.S. nuclear weapons while at the same time refusing to count Soviet weapons capable of hitting Europe or Asia, the Soviets would be stacking...
Gorbachev's importunings to the Europeans in Paris further muddy the picture. Rather than offer to trade Soviet missiles aimed at Europe for U.S. "Euromissiles" aimed at the Soviet Union, Gorbachev last week offered to negotiate separately with Britain and France. He suggested that the Kremlin might slash the number of weapons targeted at Europe in return for cuts in the British and French nuclear arsenals, which have not been counted in talks between the superpowers. As a sweetener, Gorbachev made a tantalizing but rather fuzzy and perhaps deceptive offer to reduce the number of SS-20s in range...
...white Aeroflot Il-62 jetliner for the return voyage to Moscow last Saturday, the Soviet leader could not claim any great victory on substance. On the public relations front, Gorbachev had also experienced some of the perils of the open, Western-style image making that he and his Kremlin advisers are striving to cultivate. Even so, he projected himself as an impressive, energetic figure whose pursuit of traditional Soviet goals is at least as dogged as that of any of his predecessors. Said a French foreign policy specialist: "What it confirms about Gorbachev is his ability and his political sense...