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...more immediate impact. "While the Administration has been attempting to be relatively cool," he reports, "there has been a lot of boning up for what can be some quite heavyweight diplomacy. It is an interesting reminder that policy and politics are never very far apart." Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, an arms-control expert -and author of the forthcoming Deadly Gambits: The Reagan Administration and the Stalemate in Nuclear Arms Control, contributed an analysis of prospects for the resumption of negotiations...
...Strobe Talbott's article [WORLD, June 25] is inaccurate and one-sided and not a balanced analysis of the most critical issue of our time: reducing the risk of an outbreak of nuclear war. Talbott failed to report the real story behind the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START): the dramatic, if quiet, movement by both sides toward an equitable and verifiable agreement. He also skips lightly over the fact that negotiations are in a hiatus because the Soviets refuse to return to the bargaining table...
...categorically reject Talbott's main thesis, namely that the U.S. has taken an intransigent and unrealistic position in START. In May 1982, President Reagan proposed the most sweeping reductions in nuclear arsenals ever offered. In contrast to the picture you presented, the U.S. proposal was not one-sided; it would require both the U.S. and the Soviet Union to reduce their ballistic missile warheads by one-third. In addition we proposed substantial reductions in the numbers of ballistic missiles themselves, limits on ballistic missile capability and intercontinental bombers. It was offered in a spirit of flexibility. In July...
...explore trade-offs between the areas of U.S. and Soviet advantage. These trade-offs offered the best prospects for a breakthrough. Unfortunately, the Soviets were unwilling even to discuss tradeoffs. The Soviets are highly patient and will attempt to outwait the West, hoping that we will negotiate among ourselves. Talbott fails completely to recognize this tried-and-true Soviet tactic. Edward L. Rowny, Chairman U.S. START Delegation Washington...
...three years that the Reagan Administration was actively engaged in the conduct of strategic arms control, TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott chronicled the intense infighting on the American side and the frequently acrimonious negotiations in Geneva. In the following account, he has assembled the hitherto untold story of a divided Government at work, of U.S. officials battling one another over turf, military strategy and political philosophy, even as they