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...Star Wars in the same general forum with offensive weapons. If it could not hold Star Wars off the table entirely, Washington had wanted to keep talks on offensive and defensive systems separate. Its hope was to conclude a pact that would sharply reduce the numbers of missiles and warheads without agreeing to any limit on the Star Wars program. But even if the Soviets should agree to deep cuts in offensive weapons, the formula worked out at Geneva gives them a chance to demand that defensive systems also be limited before a single missile is actually dismantled...
...experts believe that the Soviet cruise was on a training mission and was probably not armed with either a nuclear or a conventional warhead. They also concluded that the missile was most likely an old model that Moscow had had in its naval arsenal for more than 20 years, rather than a test version of the SS-NX-21, a long-range (2,000-mile) weapon that the Soviets are developing to compete with the American Tomahawk, a missile that has had several errant flights of its own. Nonetheless, the mishap pointed up the dangers of such weapons, whether nuclear...
...weaponry: conventional and nuclear, battle-field range and globe-spanning, tanks, aircraft, surface ships, submarines, and most of all, rockets." We are 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...
...back up his words. It showed the situation in late 1983, when the Soviets walked out of talks in Geneva aimed at limiting medium-range misAt that point, said Rea-the Soviet Union had not just a preponderance but a "monopoly." By U.S. count, more than 300 Soviet triple-warhead SS-20 missiles were targeted on Western Europe, vs. no comparable American missiles at all. Just then, however, the U.S. began deploying in Western Europe the first of what eventually will be 572 single-warhead Pershing II and cruise missiles...
...Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces) talks. When they began in November 1981, the U.S. planned to install in Western Europe 572 single-warhead Pershing II and Tomahawk cruise missiles to counter Soviet deployment of triple-warhead SS-20 missiles (about 270 in place then, more than 370 now) that were or could be targeted at Western Europe. The opening U.S. position was the "zero option": no U.S. deployment, scrapping of the entire Soviet SS-20 force. Later Reagan proposed an "interim solution": if the Soviets would reduce the number of SS-20s, the U.S. would deploy fewer than 572 missiles...