The World - News from Jan. 23, 1987

U.S.-Soviet talks on nuclear tests resumed for a fourth round in Geneva with chief U.S. delegate Robert B. Barker reaffirming that Washington “categorically rejects” the idea of a testing moratorium that Moscow has repeatedly urged. The Soviet Union has threatened to end a unilateral freeze on nuclear blasts after the next U.S. test. The Soviets declared the freeze Aug. 6, 1985. Barker told a news conference he could not give a precise date for the next planned U.S. nuclear detonation, “but it certainly will occur within the next month and probably less than that.”