Abstract
The arrival of new American missiles on European shores has predictably provoked a sharp Soviet reaction, likely to take both military and political forms. The NATO deployments have set in motion long-delayed Soviet weapons programmes that will soon become irreversible. These actions, and the public rhetoric accompanying them, suggest that a fundamental reassessment of American intent and Soviet-American relations may be under way in Moscow.
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M. Mackintosh-quoted by J. Erickson, in ‘The Soviet View of Deterrence: a General Survey’, Survival, 24 (November-December 1982) 242–51.
R.L. Garthoff, ‘The Soviet SS-20 Decision’, Survival, 25 (May-June 1983), 115 and 118 note 8.
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Sigal, L. (1985). The Euromissiles: Negotiating a Way Out?. In: Rotblat, J., Hellman, S. (eds) Nuclear Strategy and World Security. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17878-0_21
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