Word: deployable
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...year. Reports TIME Moscow Correspondent Bruce Nelan: "All along there has been extreme resentment in the Kremlin that the U.S. Senate was giving the U.S.S.R. grades on deportment and was threatening to kill SALT II unless Moscow behaved. Moscow was also upset by NATO's decision in December to deploy in Western Europe, by the mid-1980s, new atomic-tipped missiles capable of striking targets in the Soviet Union. Thus SALT simply was not all that important any more. Carter, meanwhile, had gone ahead and increased the U.S. defense budget and okayed the MX mobile missile (in response
...freeze, which left the Soviets with a numerical advantage of about 40% in missile launchers. Yet even with that numerical advantage, the Soviets have already bumped their heads against the SALT I ceiling: they have been forced to dismantle several older Yankee class missile-firing submarines in order to deploy new Delta class boats and stay within the SALT I limits. SALT I formally expired in October 1977. The Carter Administration and the Kremlin agreed to extend it informally until SALT II was complete. But now, with SALT II in limbo, the Soviets may feel justified in ignoring the SALT...
According to Neumann, the Soviets decided on a combination of the last two options. In the event of a failure by Karmal, Neumann has no doubt that the Soviets will be prepared to deploy their own forces. Indeed, the large Soviet buildup of perhaps 50,000 troops on Afghanistan's borders was a clear indication of the Soviets' own uncertainty about Karmal's chances...