'DURING THE meeting they discussed the subject objectives of the negotiations on nuclear and space arms. The sides agree that the subject of the negotiations will be a complex of questions concerning space and nuclear arms, both strategic and intermediate range, with all the questions considered and resolved in their interrelationship, the objective of the negotiations will be to work out effective agreements aimed at preventing an arms race in space and terminating it on earth, strengthening strategic stability' That was the communique issued at the end of the meeting on nuclear Ireneva US secretary state foreign minister Andrei Gromyko. the real significance of the talks had little to do with what stated in the comand the negotiatioes are likely to go on for Jears amid western press 0801. worth outlining what is really at The first point to be understood is that on the carrow issue of the nuclear right is wholly nd completely on the side of the ÜSSR. The 'Star Wars' programme space weapons proposed dangerous and insane pos- INTOSE ject HIDI dust ens world history.
Reagan is proposing is that the United States should attempt use is supenor economic and military resources to "tailsate system to defend the US 3OOIE Soviet retaliation to an American attack on the USSR or its allies Have no illusions. If the United States ever did gain that capacity it would launch Third War.
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forthcoming US-Soviet at limiting and reducing nuclear arms, and at stepped back only because it was convinced it would lose. If the United States would were face no retaliation for its would hesitate to use its atomic The so-called peaceful proposals the United States in the negotiations in fact the same of gaining advan age for a nuclear war. B Install!
Pershing missiles in the United States has reduced to six minutes flight-time its weapons to hit the USSR's defences.
The aim of the United States war would therefore be to rapidly knock out as many possible Tate USSR's missiles by an attack from Europe the "Star Wars' defences to SUBSCRIBE I enclose cheque/PO payable to Socialist Action for f ... Sendio: Socialist Action Subs, 328 Upper St. London N/ 2XP. hold back the much weakened Soviet counterThe chief demand the United States makes the Soviet Union at the talks that the USSR radically reduce numbers of land-based fits perfectly within this.
The simplest, cheanest. way the Soviet Union can respond to the threat the Pershing and Star Wars systems is to build a larger number of land-based missiles to survive any attack by the Pershings and to be sure of penetrating the US space defence system. rulung the missiles into subboth more expensive which forms part of the United States plan to strain the Soviet provides weapons get through the American defences In short the US demand for a reduction in specifically land-based missiles is part of its ag gressive military strateg, — not part of any move to 'reduce tension'.
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