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Translated from arms-control jargon, Kvitsinsky was saying that if the U.S. would offer to give up the entire NATO deployment of 572 single-warhead cruise and Pershing missiles, the Soviets would agree to reduce by 572 the number of warheads on its missiles in Europe. Kvitsinsky sweetened the offer by explaining that he and his military advisers had calculated that this would leave the Soviet Union with only 120 triple-warhead SS-20s, fewer than in Andropov's latest offer. The bottom line, of course, was that the U.S. would still be left with no missiles...
Moscow's position was both bogus and brazen. It was the Soviet Union that had upset the balance in the first place by deploying the mobile, triple-warhead SS-20 ballistic missile. The West Europeans urged Washington to redress the imbalance by getting the Soviets to cut back on their SS-20s while NATO evened the scales with some new weapons on its side. Nor did the Soviets quit while they were ahead. Despite declaration of a moratorium on SS-20s, they pushed ahead to complete new missile sites that had previously been under construction...
Underlying Soviet arithmetic and diplomacy was an attempt to undermine the very basis of the Atlantic Alliance by breaking an important bond between the U.S. and Western Europe. By opposing the addition of even one new intermediate-range warhead in NATO countries, the Soviets hoped to deny the U.S. the right and the ability to treat the defense of Western Europe as an extension of American self-defense...
...head of South Africa's Atomic Energy Board. Israel had reportedly already effected an exchange of South African enriched uranium for Israeli nuclear technology. A British team of investigative reporters, after surveying the evidence available at the time, concluded that the 1979 nuclear blast was an Israeli-South African warhead fired from a Belgian and American-made howitzer...
...expected to deploy its own advanced version next year. This would presumably be part of the "military countermeasures" that the U.S.S.R. has threatened to undertake. Like the U.S.'s Tomahawk, says the Review, the Soviet SS-NX-21 will have a range of 1,500 miles and a warhead of 200 kilotons. Unlike the Tomahawk ground-launched cruise missiles that are now being deployed in Western Europe, the Soviet missile can also be launched from submarines and aircraft. (The U.S. already has a different model of cruise missile that can be delivered by bombers, and another that...