Soviet Union: Nuke Rattling

Moscow's two-edged warning

Since talks on reducing nuclear weapons in Europe resumed two months ago, U.S. and Soviet negotiators have followed a prescribed ritual of meeting twice a week for an exchange of views. But so far, there seems to have been more talk in newspaper columns than behind the closed doors in Geneva. In keeping with that tradition, two top Soviet officials issued warnings in the press last week about what the Kremlin might do if NATO went ahead with plans to start deploying 572 U.S.-built intermediate-range missiles in Western Europe later this year.

The first propaganda salvo came from Marshal...

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