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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...
...missile warheads and components, split largely along party lines. Senator John Warner, the Virginia Republican, supported the continuation of testing. Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts declared that the Administration was "squandering one of the best opportunities in many years to achieve a comprehensive test-ban treaty." At the Nevada test site, almost 100 protesters from Greenpeace, the international environmental and antinuclear organization, were arrested in the course of the week. Whatever else the detonation may have accomplished, it demonstrated to Gorbachev that the U.S. is not prepared to concede anything on the testing issue...
...test scheduled for this Tuesday is code-named Mighty Oak. If all goes as planned, a U.S. nuclear device will explode in a tunnel beneath the dry lake beds of Nevada, some 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. On the scale of modern tests, it rates as a penny-ante blast, releasing a mere 20 kilotons of explosive power, equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT. Such a test usually does nothing more than rattle the china in a few Nevada closets. But this time the shock waves could reverberate around the world...
...Nevada explosion, designed to test the effects of radiation on American warheads, will underline in the bluntest possible manner the swift White House rejection of the Kremlin's latest arms-control overture. With the deft mixing of propaganda and substance that has been the hallmark of his style, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev went on television two weeks ago, 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...
...underground. The Nixon Administration in 1974 negotiated the Threshold Test Ban Treaty, limiting underground blasts to no more than 150 kilotons; like SALT II, it was never ratified by the Senate, but is generally accepted by both sides. This week's planned detonation, the 758th at the Nevada Test Site, would be under the threshold, but it clearly reasserts Reagan's resistance to Soviet proposals for a complete test...