81. He said he did not plan to visit Russia until after Parliament approved the Start II nuclear arms control treaty. 82. He helped the Carter administration enlist American companies to support Senate ratification of SALT I, the strategic nuclear arms reduction treaty. 83. He said that the nation needed to develop a new class of nuclear arms that would have low explosive yields but burrow deep. 84. He maintained that other nations would feel compelled to warehouse their own nuclear weapons for emergencies, worsening the problem of controlling nuclear arms stocks. 85. He will meet with Russian defense officials at a stopover in Moscow to discuss nuclear arm cuts. 86. He received the Nobel Peace Prize for organizing physicians against nuclear arms, but had to fend off critics who called him cozy with the Soviet establishment. 87. He was then archbishop of Cincinnati and headed the committee that drafted a much-debated pastoral letter from the hierarchy on nuclear arms and American defense policy. 88. His group, which originally focused on nuclear arms, changed its mission statement to include concerns about conventional weapons after the Gulf War. 89. Heading west last week, George W. Bush continued to call for a reduction in nuclear arms. 90. However, the Start II nuclear arms reduction treaty has been held up in the Russian Duma, which has slowed the disarmament process down. |