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...come to a critical juncture in its rivalry with the Soviet Union. With Reagan's firm advocacy of SDI, the U.S. stands poised to embark on the most extravagant military project ever conceived, perhaps the most far-reaching since the Bomb was born in the desert near Los Alamos 40 years ago. It could change forever the nature of the nuclear threat; it could force the Soviets into serious bargaining. It also has the potential, at least for the foreseeable future, to cripple any efforts at arms control...
...week before the summit, Reagan had intimated that he wanted to take personal charge by demanding that he be shown no more briefing books, be given no more lectures. "That was when he started calling it his summit," recalled an aide. Shultz had even advised his counterpart, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, that "my guy likes to size up his opposite number and see what he's really like, and the way for them to do that is for them to spend some time alone...
While their aides fidgeted outside, Reagan and Gorbachev were educating each other on their divergent world views. Gorbachev charged that America was run by a military-industrial complex that tries to fatten defense spending by inducing U.S. paranoia about the Soviet Union. He told Reagan that the President was in the thrall of a cabal of archconservatives. He claimed that American think tanks, citing the Heritage Foundation in Washington and the Hoover Institution in California, were feeding Reagan plans "designed to break down the Soviet economy." Reagan replied with astonishment to Gorbachev's conspiracy theories. Indeed, he said...
...time the two men finally emerged from their 64-min. tête-à-tête, they had already begun to hash over regional issues, which, according to the summit agenda, were not supposed to be discussed until the next day. While Reagan found the large number of Soviet advisers in Nicaragua "intolerable," Gorbachev insisted that the U.S.S.R. was bound by its constitution to aid "wars of national liberation." Disavowing imperialist ambitions, he went on, "We have no commercial interests or desire for bases. We are just helping people achieve freedom." The Soviets, he added, in a dig at Reagan for supporting anti...
Gorbachev attempted to interrupt. "Please," Reagan said, "let me finish." The Soviet leader's concern, he said, was perfectly legitimate. But he had an answer: a promise of "open laboratories." Once the U.S. has developed the technology to build an effective shield against nuclear missiles, Reagan offered, "I intend fully to share this with...