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...that they care most about as an intermediate range system, it can reach anywhere in Western Europe. They are also mobile....highly accurate and can be used as counter-force weapons ... For exactly the same reason why the Russians say they are so distressed at the Americans about the MX. Western Europeans are rightly concerned about the SS-20. The SS-20 is definitely something Andropov will continue on with in Europe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Looking at the Post-Brezhnev Era | 12/9/1982 | See Source »

...Administration defends the MX as a necessary response to the huge Soviet military buildup of the '70s. Don't you now have a strategic edge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Americans Make It Difficult | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

...tank that studies all aspects of U.S. life. In an exclusive interview in his Moscow office last week with TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Erik Amfitheatrof and Reporter Felix Rosenthal, Arbatov predictably blamed the U.S. for fueling the arms race. He stressed the Soviet Union's opposition to the MX missile, but he indicated that there was a Soviet willingness to find a political solution to the presence of some 100,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Americans Make It Difficult | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

...does the Soviet leadership view the MX proposal, which President Reagan sent to Congress last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Americans Make It Difficult | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

...MX is the first outright violation of both SALT I and SALT II, which reads: "Each party undertakes not to start construction of additional fixed ICBM launchers." The MX is regarded here as a first-strike weapon because of its very big number of warheads, their accuracy and their power. If you build something of this kind when you already have 9,000 warheads that can cover all possible targets three or four times, then you must have something in mind. The most obscene thing about this weapon is that the Administration tries to depict it as a contribution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Americans Make It Difficult | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

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