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...Ogden from Chicago reported and assessed the debate, question by question. Douglas Brew and Sam Allis, both from Washington, judged the individual performances of Reagan and Mondale. Washington Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian, in consultation with his TIME colleagues, contributed an overview of the event. In Washington, Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott reviewed how each candidate handled the details of foreign policy under the pressures of the face-to-face meeting. In addition, TIME had a panel of foreign policy and political science experts standing by to offer their own reactions immediately after the debate...
...told that SALT I and II tended to codify the trends in each side's weapon inventory--for the Soviets' development of heavy, land-based, multiple warhead intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs): for the U.S., reliance on a strategic "triad" of ICBMs, submarine-launched missiles, and intercontinental bombers. Talbott acknowledges the relative danger involved in the Soviet choice of arsenal, which is easily targetable and therefore might predispose them toward a policy of "launch first, ask questions later." And we are told that SALT II left the Soviets with a five-to-two edge in land-based warheads and in "throw...
...once again Talbott launches into a wholesale trashing of the Administration's approach. Apparently these Soviet advantages in the most volatile of nuclear weapons--land-based." MIR Veo ICBMs--mean nothing to Talbott after his highly intelligent opening chapter...
...Strobe Talbott has written by far the most valuable, detailed, thoughtful treatise on the nuclear dilemma since the most recent furor over these deadly devices began some five or six years ago. His knowledge of the material is unparalled; his writing skill outstrips that of any other writer on this subject; his access to the people involved is unmatched. But perhaps this last fact is what really dooms Deadly Gambits as a useful guideline for decisions about nuclear policy. How Byzantine and deceitful have the men in the Kremlin been? We do not know: neither does Talbott. What have been...
...Talbott does not have access to the Politburo and their advisors: he can't discover the process by which they determine their opening positions or even faithfully describe their forces, since no one really knows what they have. America's open approach to the nuclear negotiating table allowed Talbott to write the best nuclear handbook for the layman, to conduct the most exhaustive research available on the nuclear negotiating process, and to one-sidedly trash the Reagan Administration's approach. This mixture of good information and slanted analysis makes Deadly Gambits worthless, and even dangerous, as a guideline...