The Vienna talkathon on conventional forces in Europe (CFE) may turn out to be something new in the history of arms control: a negotiation that could tangibly improve the daily lives of ordinary citizens, particularly in Eastern Europe.
In that respect, CFE is different from its variously initialed cousins SALT, START and INF, which dealt with the arsenals of Armageddon: missiles and bombs that are too unconventional to use. The control of nuclear arms is part of the larger, thoroughly laudable, but often abstract exercise of fine-tuning the balance of terror so as to make it a bit more balanced and...
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