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...late November the first U.S. Pershing II ballistic missiles arrived in West Germany, and the first Tomahawk ground-launched cruise missiles were placed in Great Britain. That triggered the long-threatened Soviet walkout from the INF talks. Two weeks later, on Dec. 8, Karpov and his delegation ended the fifth round of START with an announcement that "in view of the deployment of new U.S. missiles in Europe, which has already begun, changes in the global strategic situation make it necessary for the Soviet side to review all problems under discussion...
...early '70's with the start of detente, became START under the Reagan Administration. Its subject has been ICBMs, SLBMs (Submarine Launched Balistic Missiles), and intercontinental bombers. The INF (intermediate Nuclear Force) negotiations deal with the so-called "Euromissiles." These nuclear devices--the Pershing. If ballistic missile, the Tomahawk cruise missile, and the Soviet SS-20-fit somewhat awkwardly into the "tactical" category. They are capable of striking all of Europe, including European Russia in a matter of minutes. Thus they are not, in any traditional sense, "tactical" weapons, but rather use intended to destroy European heartlands...
...silence, come the missiles, no longer metaphorical but physical and nuclear. U.S. Pershing IIs, looking incongruously toylike with their bright red and yellow stripes, being deployed in West Germany. In Britain and Italy, Tomahawk cruise missiles, sleek, innocent-looking and small enough to fit into a pickup truck, all targeted on the Soviet Union. On the other side, Soviet mobile rockets going into Czechoslovakia and East Germany, aimed at U.S. allies in Europe. Tomorrow, perhaps, Soviet depressed-trajectory ballistic missiles on submarines off America's Atlantic shores, capable of hitting Washington as rapidly as the Pershing IIs could strike...
Soviet negotiators had their first chance to walk out on Nov. 16, the day after the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announced the arrival in Britain of the first shipment of Tomahawk cruise missiles. Instead, to put maximum pressure on the West Germans, another negotiating session was scheduled for Nov. 23, the day after the Bundestag vote. Meanwhile, one of the most curious episodes in the history of the two-year-old Geneva talks was unfolding...
...late summer of 1981, Burt was squared off against Perle over what proposal to make. The Pentagon was advocating the zero option-elimination of all SS-20s in exchange for cancellation of the Pershing II ballistic-missile and Tomahawk cruise-missile programs. Paradoxically, that idea had originated among leftwingers in West Germany. Earlier in the year, National Security Adviser Allen had publicly derided "pacifist" elements in Western Europe who, he said, "believe that we can bargain the reduction of a deployed Soviet weapons system for a promise not to deploy our own offsetting system. Common sense, as well...