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WORLD, Page 53World NotesFORMER SOVIET UNIONResetting the Nuclear Clock
Since the Soviet Union dissolved before the eyes of an
astonished world last December, the West has been worrying about
what will happen to the nuclear weapons scattered among several
new and potentially unstable states. Last week U.S. officials
revealed that Washington had been given assurances that all
strategic missiles in Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus would be
eliminated within seven years, leaving only Russia with missiles
capable of striking the U.S. Washington, which is developing a
plan to help the new republics dismantle their nuclear
arsenals, also disclosed that all tactical nuclear weapons are
concentrated in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, and that by July
they will be either decommissioned or withdrawn to Russia.
Although the Administration considers these agreements to
be ironclad, Presidents of the Commonwealth of Independent
States have been jockeying for power since the formation of that
body, and the lingering fear of Russian dominance may yet make
the nuclear card a hard one for other republics to discard.