The Road to Zero
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The treaty that Reagan and Gorbachev are to sign this week cannot exist in a vacuum for very long. While the U.S. has succeeded in separating INF from the bigger issues of START and SDI, the success could prove temporary and illusory. What the experts, Soviet and American alike, call "conceptual" linkage remains a fact of life. Unless the SS-25 and other ICBMs are dealt with in a strategic agreement sometime soon, they will eventually nullify the good news being celebrated this week in Washington and around the world.
That is why, after spending their holidays at home, Kampelman and Vorontsov are scheduled to meet again in January.
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DESCRIPTION: Color illustration: Weapons and numbers of weapons to be removed by U.S.and USSR respectively. Two hands removing missiles from Eastern and Western Europe.
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