On the whole, in the period of ostensible inactivity of the United States which the President is talking about, the number of nuclear warheads on United States strategic armaments grew from 4,000 to some I 0,000. Can an increase in nuclear arsenal by a factor of 2.5 be referred to as inactivity'! No, it can by no means be called inactivity. And now about Europe where, according to the chief of the White House, the position of the United States and of NATO in general is rather hard. And if one again turns to the facts, one can easily see that the aggregate number of United States nuclear munitions there has trebled over the period and is now more than 7,000 units. Is this also a result of inactivity? The President pretends that almost a thousand medium-range nuclear systems of the United States and of its NATO allies do not exist in the zone of Europe, and that he is unaware that, judging by the aggregate amount of nuclear warheads on those systems, NATO has a 1.5-to-l advantage over the USSR. The President not only keeps silent about all that, but he also tells a deliberate lie, asserting that the Soviet Union does not observe its own unilateral moratorium on the deployment of medium-range missiles. He also passes over in silence the fact that United States medium-range armaments are not somewhere but are literally on our doorstep. Meanwhile, from this point of view, to us there is no difference between them and strategic weapons stationed in United States territory. And this concerns not only Europe. Many hundreds of United States delivery vehicles capable of delivering a nuclear strike at our territory are stationed along the entire perimeter of the USSR. And, according to officially announced plans of the Penta­
**Analysis**
The text appears to be a critique of a speech or statement made by the President of the United States, focusing on the country's nuclear arsenal and its presence in Europe. The author is highlighting the discrepancy between the President's claims of "inactivity" and the actual facts about the growth of the US nuclear arsenal and its deployment in Europe and the USSR.

**Category**
International relations, Science and technology