The End of the Cold War. 1985-1991

INDEX 635

Reagan’s commitment to Strategic
Defense Initiative as stumbling
block 214, 215, 216–18, 222,
225, 241
and Reykjavik summit (1986) 209–18,
221
and short-range missiles 244, 282–3,
284, 289, 386
Stockholm and Vienna meetings 162–3
strategic nuclear weapon talks 122–3,
126, 146, 152, 157, 163, 212, 214,
229, 279, 289, 291, 294, 296, 353,
356, 437, 438, 486, 489
Treaty on the Reduction and Limitation
of Strategic Offensive Arms
(START) (1991) 488–9
and Washington summit (1987) 290–5
withdrawal of SS-23s by Gorbachëv
283–4
‘zero’ option proposal 20, 21, 141, 163,
189, 206, 214, 218, 237, 355
nuclear war 24–33
and NATO countries 25–6, 30–1
and Poland 29–30
probable consequences 27, 28, 31–2
Soviet preparations for 24–30
nuclear weapons 1–2, 50–1
deployment of an extra B-52 bomber
with cruise missiles by Reagan
(1986) 236
deployment of Pershing-2s and
Tomahawks in Europe by US 26,
50, 84–5, 90, 98
deployment of SS-20 missiles in Eastern
Europe by USSR 84, 110
modernization question (US & USSR)
19, 140, 155, 191, 203, 260, 374,
406, 496
non-realization of Dead Hand system
25
peace movement 99, 99–100
Nunn, Sam 243, 293–4, 343
Nyers, Resző 424

Obama, Barack 499
October Revolution (1917) 78

Odom, William 26

Ogarkov, Nikolai 24, 25, 98, 106

oil prices, fall of (1985–86) 180, 199

Oldfield, Barney 209

O’Neill, Tip 126, 138

OPEC 180

Open Skies Conference (1990) 433

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting

Countries see OPEC

Orlov, Yuri 237

Ortega, Daniel 235, 397, 432

Orzechowski, Marian 325

Packard, David 35

Pakistan 123, 297, 329, 331

Palme, Olof 99, 173, 263

Party Central Committee see under

Communist Party of the Soviet

Union

Party of Democratic Socialism (Italy) 436

Party Politburo (USSR) see Politburo under

Communist Party of the Soviet

Union

Pasechnik, Vladimir 372, 439

Patiashvili, Dzhumber 370

Patolichev, Nikolai 140

Pavlov, Valentin 469, 480, 486–7

peace movement 8, 99–100, 262

Pelshe, Arvid 61–62

Perle, Richard 39, 115, 139–40, 171, 177,

205–6, 213, 215, 222, 341, 461

Pershing-2 missiles 26, 50, 84, 90, 98, 141,

207

Petrakov, Nikolai 471

Petrovski, Boris 287

Petrushenko, Nikolai 370, 476

Pióro, Tadeusz 28–9

Pipes, Richard 35

Podhoretz, Norman 222

Poindexter, John 169, 192, 197–8, 211,

228, 230, 235, 258

Poland 6, 20, 65–71, 91, 108, 188, 240,

315–16, 376

crisis (1989) 401–6

economy 65, 66, 67, 316, 321, 326

ending of martial law (1983) 82