APPENDIXES

APPENDIX I

1986 ARMS CONTROL CHRONOLOGY

Expiration of first period of the Soviet self-imposed moratorium on nuclear weapons explosions.

Soviets publicly announce plan to eliminate nuclear weapons by 2000.

Round IV of the Nuclear and Space Talks (NST) begins in Geneva.

Soviet Union extends testing moratorium to March 31 and asks the United States to join.

The United States and the Soviet Union begin the first round in Geneva of intensified discussions on a comprehensive ban on chemical weapons (CW). Conference on Confidence and Security-Building Measures and Disarmament in Europe (CDE) resumes in Stockholm.

Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions (MBFR) nego-
tiations begin 38th round of talks in Vienna.

Conference on Disarmament (CD) winter session begins in Geneva.

The Secretary-General of the United Nations
addresses the CD.

President Reagan announces in State of the
Union Address that the United States proposes a
radical cut in US-Soviet offensive forces.

Warsaw Pact, at MBFR Talks, presents new draft treaty.

Statement by President Reagan proposes "a

process by which the United States and the
Soviet Union would take the first steps in
implementing the principle of fifty percent
reductions in the nuclear offensive forces of
both sides, appropriately applied, and by nego-
tiating an Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces
(INF) agreement."

President Reagan, in a televised address, states
that it would be folly for the United States
not to press forward with the Strategic Defense
Initiative (SDI) when the Soviet Union has
already invested up to twenty years on their
own program.

US House of Representatives passes a resolution
proposing a moritorium on nuclear testing, so
long as the Soviet Union continues a testing
moritorium.

Session XXX of US-USSR Standing Consultative Commision (SCC) convenes in Geneva.

NST concludes Round IV.

Feb. 4

Feb. 20
Feb. 24

Feb. 26

Feb. 26

Mar. 4

Mar. 4

The United States and the Soviet Union, in Berne,
discuss ways of preventing the spread of
chemical weapons.

The UN Commission on Human Rights adopts two
resolutions calling for the immediate with-
drawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan
and Cambodia.

Round IX of CDE ends in Stockholm.

President Reagan announces a new proposal for
on-site monitoring of nuclear tests to strengthen
verification provisions of the Threshold Test
Ban Treaty (TTBT).

General Secretary Gorbachev extends the Soviet
nuclear testing moratorium to March 31.

United States condemns Iraq for use of chemical

weapons.

President Reagan rejects General Secretary
Gorbachev's call for a nuclear testing
moratorium.

Second period of Soviet moratorium on nuclear
explosions ends.

Round X of CDE begins in Stockholm.

NATO disarmament experts meet in Brussels.
General Secretary Gorbachev proposes in East
Berlin reductions in conventional military
forces and tactical nuclear weapons in Europe.

CD winter session recesses in Geneva.

Session XXX of the SCC ends.

Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) Preparatory
Conference is held in Geneva.

UN Disarmament Commission (UNDC) opens in New York. Nuclear Risk Reduction Center discussions are held in Geneva.

Round V of the NST begins in Geneva.

USSR extends moratorium on nuclear explosions to
August 6.

NATO Nuclear High-Level Group meets in
Charleston, South Carolina.

MBFR Round 39 begins in Vienna.

Round X of CDE concludes.

UNDC ends its session in New York.

President Reagan states that the United States will make decisions concerning the deployment of future strategic systems on the basis of

the US-Soviet military balance and not on the provisions of the SALT II Treaty.

Soviet Academy of Sciences sponsors meeting on "Peace and Disarmament" in Moscow.

NATO Ministerial Meeting in Halifax establishes a task force to consider the future of conventional arms control in Europe.

US-USSR nonproliferation consultations are held in Moscow.

CD summer session opens in Geneva.

Round XI of CDE begins.

Warsaw Pact issues "Budapest Appeal" to NATO calling for twenty-five percent cut in NATOWarsaw Pact troops by the early 1990s.

NST Round V ends in Geneva.

UN Conference on Disarmament and Development is held in Paris without US participation.

MBFR Round 39 ends in Vienna.

Round XI of CDE ends.

Special Session of SCC convenes in Geneva.
Soviet Union rejects President Reagan's
May 27, 1986, call for the Soviet Union to
join the United States in establishing an
interim framework of mutual restraint.

President Reagan sends letter to General Secretary Gorbachev making clear US preference for total elimination of US and Soviet SRINF missiles.

US and Soviet nuclear testing experts meet in
Geneva.

US-Soviet nonproliferation consultations are held in Moscow.

President Reagan reports to Congress on Interim
Restraint Policy.

Experts (Blackwill/Mikhailov) discuss MBFR
progress in Moscow.

US-Soviet arms control experts meet on NST
in Moscow.

US-Soviet chemical weapons specialists meet in
Geneva.

CDE opens final session.

Round II of talks on Risk-Reduction Centers are held in Geneva.

CD summer session ends.

US-Soviet chemical weapons specialists meet in Berne.

US-Soviet nuclear testing experts meet in Geneva.

US-Soviet arms control experts meet on NST in
Washington.

BWC Review Conference is held in Geneva.

Session 41 of the United Nations General Assembly opens in New York.

NST Round VI resumes in Geneva.

CDE's final session ends in Stockholm; agreement
reached on Confidence and Security-Building
Measures (CSBMs).

Soviet Foreign Minister Edward Shevardnadze
visits Washington.

Reagan-Gorbachev meeting in Iceland announced.

President Reagan addresses the UN General
Assembly; makes new comprehensive NST
proposal.

Round 40 of MBFR opens in Vienna.

Special International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) General Conference on Nuclear

Safety is held in Vienna.

Chemical Weapons Report issued; it describes
results of NATO consultations concerning

CW deterrent posture.

SCC begins Round XXXII in Geneva.

President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev
meet in Reykjavik, Iceland.

UNGA First Committee begins work.

ACDA Director addresses UNGA First Committee
on Reykjavik results.

Nuclear Planning Group meeting held in
Glenneagles, Scotland

Palme Commission meets in Budapest, Hungary.

US-Soviet chemical weapons specialists begin
meeting in New York.

CSCE Review Conference begins in Vienna.

Secretary of State Schultz and Soviet Foreign
Minister Shevardnadze meet in Vienna.

Atlantic Conference on East/West Relations is
held in Paris.

IAEA International Symposium on Nuclear Material
Safeguards occurs in Vienna.