This collection includes statements and addresses by President Reagan from Feburary 2, 1985, through December 31, 1985, on a broad range of topics related to arms control. All are taken from volume 21 of the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents. The date and setting of each are cited, along with the Weekly Compilation issue and page on which the quote can be found. Addresses, announcements, and interviews relating solely to arms control are included in their entirety. Short passages from speeches and interviews are identified as excerpts. Those quotes from White House press releases that were not actually delivered by President Reagan are so identified.
Abstract -- US Security (peace through strength, defense spending, US military modernization, the US-soviet balance) -- The Geneva Negotiations on Nuclear and Space Arms (US goals, US proposals, reactions to Soviet proposals, progress in ongoing negotiations, prospects for success) -- The Strategic Defense Initiative (goals of SDI, SDI and arms control, SDI and the ABM Treaty, allied participation in SDI, Soviet reaction to SDI, Soviet efforts in strategic defense, sharing SDI technology with the Soviet Unition) -- Antisatellite Weapons -- The MX -- Verification and Compliance (the need for effective verification, charges of Soviet noncompliance, US policy on continued compliance with SALT II) -- Nuclear Testing (reaction to the Soviet moratorium, US offer to exchange observers at test sites) -- The Soviet Union (US-Soviet relations, the President's view of the Soviet Union) -- The Reagan-Gorbachev Summit (preparation for the summit, agenda, expectations for the summit, impressions of General Secretary Gorbachev, summit results) -- The Nato Alliance (strength and unity of NATO, US deployment of nuclear weapons on allied territory, US presence in allied countries) -- Multilateral Arms Control (conventional weapons, chemical weapons, confidence building measures) -- Nuclear Nonproliferation (restrant of proliferation, peaceful nuclear cooperation).
Jeanette Voas, Research Assistant, Office of Senior Specialists.
CRS 86-549 S
"February 7, 1986."
SuDoc# 14. 18/3
