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...research program cannot be predicted, the problems being faced and some of the ways in which they might be overcome are reasonably clear. Every proposal for a missile defense system begins with a profile of an enemy nuclear attack. In its roughly 30-minute flight from a silo in Siberia to detonation on top of a Minuteman silo in North Dakota--or above the White House--a Soviet warhead would go through four well-marked stages: 1) Boost. The rocket engines of, say, an SS-18 missile push it up through the atmosphere and into space. 2) Post-boost...
...atmosphere around the negotiating table is not likely to be improved by the Administration's determination to "get satisfaction," as one official put it, on apparent Soviet violations of past Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT) treaties. One example: the construction of a huge radar facility at Krasnoyarsk in Siberia that could be used as a defensive warning system, in violation of the 1972 antiballistic missile (ABM) treaty. Richard Perle, a critic of past arms-control measures, charged last week that the U.S. has allowed the Soviets to "think they could play fast and loose with these accords...
...means somehow joining the circus of Colonel Kearney, a bizarre Kentuckian who has hired Fevvers to join a historic round-the-world tour: the American plans to outstrip Hannibal, taking a full troupe of performers and animals ("tuskers across the tundra!") from St. Petersburg to Japan, by way of Siberia, and thence on to Seattle. Walser is hired as a clown...
...initially raised high hopes around the world. But by the time the U.S. and Soviet delegations arrived in the Swiss city, the negotiating climate seemed not much warmer than the temperature, which dropped so low (14 degrees F) that Gromyko said jokingly that he would "rather be in Siberia." Both sides came in talking so tough that U.S. journalists in the immense press corps (see box) were speculating about an outright collapse of the talks...
...will strongly protest alleged Soviet violations of existing arms- control treaties. In particular, Shultz was supposed to tell Gromyko that the giant radar station the Soviets are building near Krasnoyarsk in Siberia is "a dagger pointed at the heart of arms control." The U.S. considers the installation to be a step toward development of a nationwide system of antiballistic-missile defenses forbidden by a 1972 treaty. An Administration official elaborated that the U.S. must be assured of Moscow's compliance with past treaties if it is to have any "confidence we can conclude a satisfactory agreement in the future...