ABSTRACT
Positive public reaction in Western Europe to the resumption of US-Soviet arms control discussion cannot conceal the fact that concern over the state of East-West arms control and over the Western strategy of nuclear deterrence has continued. Although antinuclear groups in Western Europe no longer appear capable of fielding the huge demonstrations of 1982-1983, antinuclear sentiment continues strong in the West European public. Interested European North Atlantic Treaty Organization members should also be given a role through membership in an advisory group, empowered to follow the negotiations on strategic weapons in detail and give advice on their strategy. If East-West relations do not worsen significantly during the next four or five years, it will appear increasingly logical, desirable, even politically necessary to move forward in all areas of arms control in Europe. Denmark and Norway already prohibit stationing of US nuclear weapons on their territory, and the Spanish and Greek governments have taken positions pointing to future prohibition.
