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...ratification of the side agreements--even if it means bringing START to a full stop. That kind of logic--abandoning an accord that eliminates thousands of Russian ICBMs aimed at the U.S. to build a defense against rogue-state missiles that may not exist--mystifies arms-control proponents. Says Spurgeon Keeny Jr., president of the Arms Control Association: "Russia is still the only country that threatens the existence...
...almost certainly lack the money, technical know-how or laboratory equipment to fashion nuclear raw materials into a working weapon. In fact, experts believe that it would be extremely difficult for most terrorist groups to make an atom bomb without the resources of a friendly country. The task, says Spurgeon Keeny, a physicist who is executive director of the Arms Control Association in Washington, is like building an automobile. Many people know how one is assembled, "but there is a lot of difference between that and sitting down in your shop and doing...
...only $ Bonn and Paris but also Boston and Peoria. Substituting SS-25s for SS-20s would violate the 1979 SALT II treaty. But last year the Reagan Administration renounced SALT II and exceeded its limits. The Soviets are free to do the same whenever they choose. Says Spurgeon Keeny, president of the Washington-based Arms Control Association: "Given the U.S. repudiation of SALT II, strategic forces can grow without constraint, and they will soon negate any reductions achieved at the INF negotiations unless a new agreement is reached...
...margin." Translation: adding new defenses must be cheaper than it would cost the Soviets to deploy missiles to counter them. Critics charge that hastily embarking on a smart- rocks system is a way to evade this requirement. "Phased deployment is an effort to obfuscate the 'cost-effective' argument," says Spurgeon Keeny, president of the Arms Control Association. "Supporters will concede that Phase 1 isn't cost effective but will argue that the ultimate, undefined SDI system would be." With so little genuine technological advancement, why the sudden push for phased deployment? One factor is clearly the pleas from SDI supporters...
...Carolyn Spurgeon calls the overall effect produced by the grouping together of several images and references, a "running image," In "Romeo and Juliet" it is the continual stream of images related to light in contrast with darkness that sets the mood or atmosphere...