LEAD: Controversy is still raging among officials and defense experts on whether to remove medium-range missiles from Europe.

Upgrades include removing missiles from the carrier foredeck to make way for a 14.3-degree ski-jump.

We will not have to remove missiles from arms ahead of time.

Cuba remains an armed camp, despite the security from military attack promised by Washington in 1962 as part of the deal for removing Soviet missiles.

And last week, the Reagan Administration outlined its ideas for monitoring compliance with a treaty on removing medium-range missiles from Europe.

The truth, then, is that a secret American undertaking - to remove missiles from Turkey - made the solution possible.

Boiled down, the message was that the last of the guidance systems had been removed from the Russians" submarine-based ballistic missiles.

Under the current wording, voters would decide whether to increase military spending if China does not remove missiles aimed at Taiwan.

After the Soviet-American treaty removing medium-range missiles, a new look at the role of shorter-range weapons was needed.

There is no way to put the genie back in the bottle and remove shoulder-launched missiles from the international black market.