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...restricted on the ground that they actually give impetus to the arms race by encouraging development of bigger and better offensive weapons. That resulted in the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, which is still in force. Gorbachev had proposed, earlier this year, that both sides agree to abide by the ABM treaty for up to 20 more years, in the hope of curtailing the development of a Star Wars system. In the past few months, he had hinted that the Soviets would be willing to accept an extension of 15 years, or even less. Reagan had offered a plan that would...
...agreement broke down over the issue of exactly what would be permitted under the ABM treaty during those ten years. The U.S. interpretation of the treaty is that research, development and testing of new technologies--just about everything short of actual deployment--are allowed under the treaty. But there is dispute on this point, and the Administration has said in the past that it will abide by what it calls a "strict" interpretation of the pact, one that permits research but not full-scale development of new systems...
...Glassboro meeting led to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT). At a summit in Moscow in 1972, Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev signed a pair of agreements embodying McNamara's recommendation to Kosygin at Glassboro: a treaty restricting antiballistic-missile defenses and an interim accord on offenses. The ABM treaty is still in force; the offensive agreement was replaced in 1979 by SALT II, which was never ratified and which expired last year but still serves as a check on the arsenals of the two sides while they try to negotiate a new set of agreements in Geneva...
...result may indeed be a new round of the defensive-arms race, one in which the U.S. would, at least initially, have the advantage of superior technology. Gorbachev has been pressing for an updated version of the original SALT deal: restrictions on SDI (which is a latter-day ABM system) in exchange for significant reductions in offensive weaponry, especially the most threatening Soviet systems...
...system around Moscow--a system to defend their capital against our long-range missiles. We made the reasonable--but perhaps incorrect--assumption that they would deploy the system across the entire Soviet Union. Why would anyone put a system around one city and nowhere else? Were a nationwide Soviet ABM system to be put in place, it would require that we make major changes in our force levels...