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...Soviet-American relationship necessarily meant defusing the Soviet-American rivalry, and just the opposite has happened. The Soviets were angry over the human rights policy, rapid Sino-American rapprochement, the hawkish tone of the Senate SALT debate, the go-ahead for the MX missile, and the decision to deploy new weapons in Europe. Partly because of that anger and partly because of the imperatives of their own national security, the Kremlin rebuffed U.S. attempts at "persuasion." It was as though the old men in the Politburo had decided to teach Carter a lesson in what happens when moralism is pitted...
...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...
...negotiating additional provisions that would apply the brakes to the Soviet juggernaut. The Administration has inserted into the Vladivostok framework a new ceiling for MiRVed ICBMS and a freeze on the MIRVing of various types of ICBMS. Before the treaty expires in 1985, the Soviets would be permitted to deploy a maximum of 820 MiRVed ICBMS. That is about 100 more than they have now and therefore hardly cause for euphoria. But while it is not disarmament, it is arms control, since in the absence of that ceiling the Soviets would probably deploy more than 900 MiRVed ICBMS...
...Soviet officials and American Kremlinologists alike, was that the Kremlin did not want to scuttle SALT during the final months of the negotiations. Since then, however, the U.S. has coupled SALT with its considerable increase in defense spending, its go-ahead for the MX, and the NATO decision to deploy a new generation of U.S. nuclear missiles in Western Europe. If the Kremlin now has truly decided SALT is not worth saving, the superpowers could be moving into a protracted period of unfettered military competition...