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Subject: Re: Soviet Treaty Violations - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 23-Aug-84 01:53:00 EDT
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uiucdcs!renner    Aug 23 00:53:00 1984

   /**** uiucdcs:net.politics / orb@whuxl /  5:52 pm  Aug 22, 1984 ****/
>  
>  ...Here is a response to some of the frequent charges which keep being
>  repeated even though may of them had been dealt with in the past by 
>  the Standing Consultative Committee under past Presidents.
>  
>  1.  "Development of chemical and biological weapons" we assume this is
>  the infamous "Yellow Rain" controversy...
   
There is considerable evidence that the Soviets are using recombinant DNA
techniques to produce biological weapons.  Or so said an article in Wall
Street this year, which quoted Russian emigrants as saying that they had
worked on such a project.  The circumstantial evidence includes the fact that
several Soviet biochemists with expertise in this area were refused exit
visas on the grounds that they possess "national defense secrets."  There is
also the well-documented outbreak of anthrax around Sverdlosk (I think) back 
in the late 1970s.  Anthrax is a very useful disease for biological warfare;
the British played around with it in WWII, and the test ground is still
uninhabitable.

The point here is that the evidence is much stronger than that from the 
"Yellow Rain" controversy.  

>  2.  "New radar deployed in the Soviet interior " This allegation
>  probably concerns testing SA-5 radar in an ABM mode...
   
Then again, it might concern the new phased-array radar being constructed in
Siberia.  The Soviets say that it is only for tracking satellites, but it
appears that it can be used as part of an ABM system as well.  The Soviets
are pretty good at this trick.  They have a mobile anti-aircraft system (the
SA-11? -- just guessing) which is supposed to protect against high-altitude
airplanes, and is therefore not prohibited by treaty.  The ABM applications
of this system are presumably incidental.
   
>  The only way to stop the Soviets from deploying new weapons systems
>  is to negotiate more treaties-and make them honor those treaties.
>  Regrettably President Reagan has done neither.

This is probably true.  But the treaties had better be verifiable.  I think
this requires on-site inspection.  And there had better be a plan on what to do
if the Soviets don't honor the treaties.  I think this requires something better
than a Standing Consultative Committee.

Scott Renner
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