Abstract
On June 1, 1988, the most turbulent chapter in the history of East/West arms control culminated in Moscow with the televised exchange by President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev of documents ratifying the treaty on intermediate-range nuclear forces (I.N.F.). The “Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles” marks the first successful effort to build down the East/West military confrontation in Europe. Thus any attempt to judge the prospects for continuing the build-down process and for significantly cutting back the vast force concentration on that continent must begin with I.N.F.1
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The text of the I.N.F. treaty, together with a fuller description of the I.N.F. negotiations, is published in my article on the subject for the SIPRI Yearbook 1988: World Armaments and Disarmament, on which this chapter is based. The best general sources on I.N.F. are: (1) Lawrence Freedman, The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy ( New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1983 );
Raymond Garthoff, Detente and Confrontation ( Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1985 );
David N. Schwartz, NATO’s Nuclear Dilemmas ( Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1983;
Gerard Smith, Double Talk (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1985, paperback ed.);
Strobe Talbott, Deadly Gambits (New York: Knopf, 1984); and
Thomas Risse-Kappen, The Zero Option (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1988). My own book, Watershed in Europe (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1987), contains a detailed description of the development of the I.N.F. talks up to the spring of 1986.
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Dean, J. (1989). Beginning the Build-Down in Europe: Negotiating the I.N.F. Treaty. In: Meeting Gorbachev’s Challenge. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20462-5_1
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