The Washington Summit : INTERMEDIATE-RANGE MISSILES TO BE ELIMINATED

The intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty, if ratified, will eliminate Soviet and American missiles with 1,939 warheads. And, in a move that parallels the INF accord, West Germany has agreed to restore 72 Pershing 1-A missiles under its control; the warheads, under U.S. control, also will be withdrawn. The treaty represents the first agreement between the superpowers to discard an entire class of nuclear weapons.

United States: Missile: Pershing 2 Number of missiles 108 Initial deployment date 1983 Locations southern West Germany (Neu Ulm, Heilbronn, Schwaebisch-Gmuend) Range 1,100 miles Warheads per missile 1 Mobility Mobile Missile: Ground-Launched Cruise Missile Number of missiles 256 Initial deployment date 1984 Locations (Greenham Common, 50 miles west of London), southern Belgium (Florennes) and Italy (Sicily) Range 1,550 miles Warheads per missile 1 Mobility Mobile Missile: Pershing 1-A Number of missiles 72 Initial deployment date 1962 Locations southern West Germany (Tevren Nord, Landsberg am Lech) Range 460 miles Warheads per missile 1 Mobility Mobile* Soviet Union: Missile: SS-20 Number of missiles 441 Initial deployment date 1977 Locations western Soviet Union, south-central Soviet Union (near Novosibirsk) and central Soviet Union (across top of Lake Baikal) Range 3,100 miles Warheads per missile 3 Mobility Mobile Missile: SS-4 Number of missiles 112 Initial deployment date 1961 Locations western Soviet Union Range 1,200 miles Warheads per missile 1 Mobility Fixed-base Missile: SS-23 Number of missiles 20 Initial deployment date 1985 Locations western Soviet Union (Byelorussia) Range 310 miles Warheads per missile 1 Mobility Mobile Missile: SS-12/22 Number of missiles 110 to 120 Initial deployment date 1967-1979 Locations western Soviet Union, East Germany and Czechoslovakia, along Chinese border, opposite eastern Turkey and Southwest Asia Range 570 miles Warheads per missile 1 Mobility Mobile * Mobile launchers under West German control, warheads under U.S. control. Though not bound by the treaty, the West Germans are retiring their Pershing 1-As as a gesture of cooperation.

Sources: Arms Control Assn., Defense Department, Natural Resources Defense Council, General Dynamics.