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...talks with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev were intended to wrap up the broad agreement between President Ford and the Russian leader at Vladivostok in November 1974 to limit each side to 2,400 long-range missiles and bombers. Of this number, only 1,320 could carry MIRVs-clusters of independently aimed warheads. Kissinger brought home proposed compromises on most of the unsettled issues, but they satisfied none of his critics. Said Richard Perle, a foreign policy adviser to Scoop Jackson: "He gave everything away...
...range weapon because it cannot fly farther than 7,000 miles. Pentagon strategists argue that Backfire should still be included under the proposed SALT agreement because if based in the Arctic or refueled in midair, the bomber could reach the U.S. To allay Pentagon fears, the Soviets offered to limit the number of Backfires and restrict their mid-air refueling and Arctic basing capabilities. Reflecting Pentagon suspicions about Russian promises, a U.S. strategist called the Backfire proposal "nonsense...
...could be held back on the new U.S. cruise missile, a jet-propelled bomb that can be launched from a plane or sub and has a range of 1,400 to 2,300 miles. Reason: the proposal would count any bomber carrying cruise missiles against the 1,320 MIRV limit set at Vladivostok. As a result, the U.S. would have to give up some existing MIRVed missiles, such as land-based Minuteman Ills or submarine-based Poseidons-a sacrifice that the Pentagon is unwilling to make...
Kissinger also points out to associates that the proposed SALT agreement would force the Soviets to give up several hundred high-performance nuclear weapons systems in order to get under the Vladivostok ceiling. Moreover, as a further concession to the U.S., the Soviets have offered to lower this limit by a few hundred, possibly to 2,200 missiles and bombers. The U.S.S.R. now has 2,530 long-range missiles and bombers; in contrast, the U.S. has 2,160. Says the senior U.S. official: "Whatever else happens, a reduction is better...
Gibson's decision also makes it virtually impossible for him to follow through this spring with college-wide tests of equipment designed to limit access to University facilities...