Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is a step forward," Shevardnadze said in describing their talks on nuclear weapons. He said he was "looking with optimism" upon prospects for a summit meeting between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev...
...Moscow, meanwhile, the official news agency Tass reported quoted Gorbachev as saying that a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles could still be worked out this year by the superpowers, and an accord to cut strategic weapons was possible early next year...
...quest for a ban on all nuclear testing, the Soviet Union publicly unveiled a novel proposal last week. Speaking in Washington, Colonel General Nikolai Chervov, one of Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's closest arms-control advisers, invited the U.S. to explode an atom bomb at a Soviet nuclear test site. Purpose: to enable Washington to fine-tune its monitoring equipment and thus ensure that any treaty violation could be detected. Chervov added that the Soviets should then be allowed to detonate a bomb at a U.S. test site...
After noting that Soviet negotiators privately proposed the idea during July talks on nuclear testing in Geneva, White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater warily responded, "We don't really know the specifics of what the proposal means." But the Administration continues to reject a total test ban, which would hamper its plans to upgrade the U.S. nuclear arsenal...
...Israeli officials are concerned, Mordechai Vanunu has done too much talking. The former nuclear technician made global headlines last October when he allegedly told the London Sunday Times that Israel had built and stockpiled 100 nuclear weapons. Then, while in Israeli custody last December, two months after he vanished from London, Vanunu flashed a message written on his hand through a police-van window saying he had been abducted in Rome, presumably by Israeli agents...