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THE WEEK, Page 24NATIONUp to the Presidents
Just how deeply will the U.S. and Russia cut their arsenals?
Arms-control talks between Russian President Boris Yeltsin
and President Bush this week serve as a reminder that both
countries still have thousands of warheads in their nuclear
stockpiles. The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which the
Senate will debate later this month, cuts warheads 30% for both
sides. Bush has already proposed further reductions to 4,700
warheads, and Yeltsin trumped this by suggesting 2,500 on each
side.
The stumbling block is U.S. insistence that the Russians
scrap their entire post-START arsenal of 154 land-based SS-18
missiles, each of which carries 10 warheads. Yeltsin demands as
a quid pro quo that the U.S. dismantle its fleet of
multiple-warhead Trident submarine-based missiles. After a final
meeting with U.S. Secretary of State James Baker, Russian
Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev reported "good progress" but
added that "the rest will depend on our Presidents."