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Another possible impediment to a productive Reagan-Gorbachev meeting was the Administration's decision to go ahead with an underground nuclear test in Nevada last week after a two-day delay that had been caused by bad weather. The Soviet Union, which had adopted a self-imposed moratorium on nuclear testing last August, denounced the U.S. action and said that the U.S.S.R. too would resume testing. The Soviet news agency TASS described the U.S. test, which was code-named Mighty Oak, as a "dangerous destabilizing step" and an indication that the Reagan Administration "is still chasing the will...
...with no advance word to the U.S. through diplomatic channels, to propose that President Reagan meet him promptly in Europe to negotiate a total ban on nuclear tests. If the U.S. rejected the offer and continued testing, Gorbachev warned, the Kremlin would end its self-imposed eight-month moratorium. New nuclear tests by both sides, following a long series of diplomatic developments that have shaken relations between the superpowers over the past few months, would deeply affect an even more fundamental question: Can anything be preserved of the accommodative "spirit of Geneva" that emerged from the Reagan-Gorbachev summit only...
Ronald Reagan is the only President since the U.S. first developed the Bomb to oppose a comprehensive ban on the testing of atomic weapons. In 1963, two years after the Soviets broke an unofficial 34-month moratorium, John Kennedy sent Diplomat Averell Harriman to Moscow in hopes of securing such a sweeping ban; he returned after twelve days with only the Limited Test Ban Treaty, which forbade explosions in the atmosphere and oceans but not underground. The Nixon Administration in 1974 negotiated the Threshold Test Ban Treaty, limiting underground blasts to no more than 150 kilotons; like SALT...
Gorbachev said on March 29 that the moratorium would go beyond March 31, but only until the United States carried out its next nuclear test blast...
...moratorium started last August 6, the 40th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and was originally to expire December...