Word: pledgees
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The Europeans who initially urged the U.S. to develop and deploy the new missiles reasoned that they would offset the growing arsenal of intermediate-range Soviet SS-20s while giving the U.S. bargaining strength in any future arms negotiations. Beginning in 1977, Schmidt led the campaign for the Europeans. In...
The crisis over American missile deployment to counter the Soviet theater nuclear threat in Western Europe is only the latest symptom of a deep and recurring anxiety: How can Europeans be sure that the U.S. will be at its partners' side if Moscow launches an attack? Europeans continue to...
The dilemma was painful, no less so because Ronald Reagan had inflicted it on himself. After pushing the biggest tax cut in U.S. history ($749 billion over five years) through a reluctant Congress and proposing $1.7 trillion in military spending in the next six years, could he also keep his...
Another theme of Moscow's peace campaign is its call for a U.S.-Soviet pledge disavowing the first use of nuclear weapons. Although Haig last week said that such professions of "moderation and sensitivity on the question [were] not unwelcome," Washington had sound reason to be dubious. For one...
Moreover, a pledge not to use nuclear weapons first would weaken the doctrine of "extended deterrence," the American nuclear umbrella that covers Western Europe. For that doctrine to remain credible, the U.S. must retain the option of first using nuclear weapons against an attack on Western Europe by the Warsaw...