Word: nuclear
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Thatcher said elimination of the weapons would mean that the "Soviet Union will have achieved its objective of getting land-based nuclear weapons out of Europe. This I believe would be disastrous...
Thatcher at one point appeared to speculate whether Kohl was in favor of an outright elimination of tactical nuclear weapons. "I'm sure Mr. Kohl will correct me if I have misunderstood him on this issue," she said...
Kohl responded by having his interpreter read a line from his speech to parliament last week in which he rejected elimination of the tactical nuclear weapons under the present balance of military forces in Europe...
Most of NATO's short-range nuclear weapons are based in West Germany and would be used exclusively on German soil...
Kohl, faced with uncertain election prospects next year, also wants to delay until at least 1992 a decision on modernization and deployment of rockets to replace NATO's aging short-range nuclear arsenal...