Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three weeks after President Johnson announced that the Soviet Union had agreed to discuss limiting nuclear arms, U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson called on Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Moscow for the first round of talks. Though Thompson and Gromyko conferred for only half an hour last week-and even then only on how the negotiations should be conducted- the importance of the session transcended the time spent...
Despite the treaty's limited scope, it clearly represents an improvement in U.S.-Soviet relations. The Russian Presidium is expected to rubber-stamp it shortly, thereby completing action on the first bilateral treaty ever entered into by the two countries. A pact to prohibit nuclear weapons in space may also be ratified shortly. But agreement on the thorniest issue-anti-ballistic missiles-is a remoter prospect, though talks on the subject are scheduled to begin in Moscow soon. In the meantime, Russia is thought to be going ahead with plans to deploy an ABM system...
...cost of maintaining a credible nuclear force increases, a European defense system may become more appealing, he told a large Sanders Theatre audience...
...predict what the practical content of a European defense force would be," Heath said in his third and final Godkin Lecture, but he suggested that it might include a nuclear striking force based on present French and British nuclear capacity...
...refreshing change from the search for reassurance that marked the West Germany of Ludwig Erhard. U.S. diplomats, in fact, are not unhappy at accepting a bit of independence and even some nose-tweaking-as when Kiesinger last week accused the U.S. and the Soviet Union of "complicity" in the nuclear nonproliferation treaty-in return for a more self-assured German government...