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...other SALT issues, Baker was fuzzy in a way that suggested that he was trying to allow for the possibility of having to reverse field on the treaty. He criticized, for instance, the fact that the Soviet Backfire bomber was left out of the treaty. At the same time, he seemed to suggest that he might settle for some measure short of counting Backfire under SALT, such as a Senate resolution calling on the U.S. to develop an equivalent bomber, which would be permitted under the treaty. On balance, however, Baker was so adamant about opposing the agreement that...
...building this missile." He warned that if the missile cannot be verified by the Soviets "this will plant a mine under further negotiations." Carter replied that the missile would indeed be verifiable and therefore within the SALT II limits. The two leaders also exchanged views on the Soviet Backfire bomber, U.S. cruise missiles and the coming negotiations on SALT III. They agreed on the difficulties posed by medium-range weapons, which are not covered by SALT II but which they would like to limit...
...really is to kill the treaty through amendments. Such amendments are designed to go over ground that has been negotiated for years by three Administrations, amendments designed to reverse the final compromise on a given issue. A case in point: insisting that the Backfire be counted as a heavy bomber" and thus as a strategic weapon. On the other hand, Smith said, an amendment could specify "that the U.S. has the prerogative of developing a similar bomber without having to count it against our total of strategic launchers. That's not a killer amendment, and it is one that...
...until 1985: each side would be allowed 2,400 strategic, or intercontinental-range, weapons, 1,320 of which could have MIRVs. In January 1976, Brezhnev and Henry Kissinger had nearly reached an understanding on how to fit into the Vladivostok framework two new weapons, the Soviet Backfire bomber and the U.S. cruise missile, which had not been defined at Vladivostok. But by then detente, SALT and Kissinger himself had come under attack from presidential candidates in both parties, including Democratic Dark Horse Jimmy Carter...
...meeting in mid-March, Vance suggested that if the Soviets rejected the comprehensive proposal, the U.S. should be prepared instead to ratify the Vladivostok ceilings immediately and defer to SALT III the resolution of the Backfire bomber and cruise missile as well as deep reductions in the ceilings. Carter approved, as long as the Soviets understood that the comprehensive proposal was the "preferred" U.S. position. The deliberations over the comprehensive proposal were so secret that even the top layer of the bureaucracy was largely ignorant of what had happened until the eve of Vance's departure for Moscow...