Arms: Drama and Reality

In my last column, I wrote about the Soviet-backed “peace” campaigns in the West. I turn now to a quite different aspect of the same problem: the arms-control negotiations between the U.S. and the USSR.

Without counting the interminable talks on “mutual and balanced force reductions” (MBFR) in Vienna, which concern conventional forces, there are two sets of talks latterly resumed: those concerning intermediate-range (or “theater”) nuclear weapons; and START (Strategic Arms Reduction Talks), the well-named successor to the ill-starred SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks). The former resumed on January 27, the latter on February 2.

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In my last column, I wrote about the Soviet-backed “peace” campaigns in the West. I turn now to a quite different aspect of the same problem: the arms-control negotiations between the U.S. and the USSR.

Without counting the interminable talks on “mutual and balanced force reductions” (MBFR) in Vienna, which concern conventional forces, there are two sets of talks latterly resumed: those concerning intermediate-range (or “theater”) nuclear weapons; and START (Strategic Arms Reduction Talks), the well-named successor to the ill-starred SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks). The former resumed on January 27, the latter on February 2.