NEWS
November 15, 1987 | Associated Press
Premier Nikolai I. Ryzhkov met Saturday with U.S. industrialist Armand Hammer and urged progress on eliminating strategic weapons during next month's U.S.-Soviet summit, Tass reported. The news agency said Hammer and Ryzhkov met after Hammer, chairman of Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum, arrived in Moscow to open an exhibition of American art.
NEWS
November 8, 1986 | DON COOK, Times Staff Writer
The Soviet Union on Friday formally presented its "Reykjavik package" of proposals for deep cuts in nuclear weapons, but U.S. negotiators now are resigned to the probability that the arms control talks are heading into a prolonged hiatus likely to last well into the new year. Soviet negotiator Viktor P. Karpov and American negotiator Max M. Kampelman flew here Friday morning from Vienna where they had participated in the inconclusive talks between Secretary of State George P.
OPINION
September 15, 1985
Former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger's article (Opinion, Sept. 8), "Talking Down Arms," posits the argument that President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative "is the only new idea that points away from excessive reliance on nuclear weapons." Unfortunately, Kissinger and the Reagan Administration ignore the "old" idea of a comprehensive nuclear test ban, a plan that could conceivably save us the projected $1 trillion for "Star Wars'." According to experts such as the former director of the CIA, William Colby, and the Federation of American Scientists, this proposal would work well within our national technical means for verification of significant violations.
OPINION
December 27, 1987
Your recent editorial in support of the Midgetman missile ("Killing the Wrong Weapon," Dec. 20) offers curious arguments to defend an unnecessary weapon. First, it is vital to note that the primary rationale for Midgetman, the theoretical "window of vulnerability" (through which Soviet land-based missiles would attack our land-based missiles), was slammed shut by the Scowcroft Commission in its 1983 report. Then, as now, the United States maintained a triad of weapons--on land, sea, and air--that effectively compensates for the vulnerability of any particular leg. Land-based missiles might be more vulnerable than those launched from submarines, but the Soviets are surely not going to attempt a first strike against only 18% of our weapons when 46% of our warheads are at sea and largely invulnerable and another 36% are aboard bombers.
NEWS
September 29, 1985 | ROBERT C. TOTH, Times Staff Writer
The Soviet arms reduction offer handed to President Reagan on Friday by Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze went somewhat further than Administration officials had expected, calling for a 50% cut in nuclear warheads and bombs, but it did not contain another feature that they consider crucial in any major arms control plan.
NEWS
October 31, 1986 | ELEANOR CLIFT, Times Staff Writer
President Reagan turned "Star Wars" into a bread-and-butter issue at a campaign stop here Thursday, predicting that the missile defense system heralded a boom in jobs and prosperity that would rival the birth of the space program.