High stakes in INF verification
The stakes involved in negotiating INF verification arrangements are high. While these proposals deal only with intermediate-range ground-launched cruise and mobile missiles, if properly devised they could help pave the way for comprehensive limits on other cruise missiles and strategic mobile missiles. In contrast, poorly drafted monitoring provisions could compromise national industrial security and generate numerous compliance controversies. Any verification regime will require new openness on both sides, but that means significant risks as well as opportunities. US and Soviet negotiators could spend weeks, months, and even years working out in painstaking detail verification provisions for medium-range missiles. Alternatively, if the two sides wished to conclude an INF agreement quickly, they could defer most of the difficult verification issues to the strategic arms negotiations.
- Research Organization:
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC
- OSTI ID:
- 6394844
- Journal Information:
- Bull. At. Sci.; (United States), Vol. 43:5
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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