US‐Soviet Research in Arms Control

Much of the excitement may seem to have gone out of arms control since the high drama of Reykjavik—the October 1986 summit meeting in which President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev came close to reaching a historic agreement. Yet even in these much more quiet times the US and Soviet governments continue to conduct promising negotiations across a broad range of arms control issues. And still more quietly, but not far behind the scenes, scientists from the US and USSR carry on more informal but increasingly well‐organized discussions of more distant and more daring ways of strengthening limits on nuclear arms and of furthering a long‐term process of disarmament