Word: mutually
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...start with MIRVs, MARVs, SLBMs, ALCMs and ICBMs. Then add "counterforce," "mutual assured destruction" and "first-strike capability." All this is part of the mind-numbing, acronymic jargon used in the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (known for short as SALT). Although the vocabulary is impenetrable, except to think-tank experts, and the concepts are often Strangelovean, the complex SALT negotiations may yet turn out to be the most important of the century. Herewith a primer of key questions and answers...
...U.S.S.R. could launch an atomic retaliation even after suffering a massive, surprise "first strike." In a sense, SALT aims at keeping the American and Soviet societies hostage to each other in order to make such a nuclear exchange unthinkable. This theory of deterrence is known, rather grimly, as mutual assured destruction. A secondary aim of SALT is the eventual reduction of costly nuclear arsenals so that the U.S. and the Soviet Union will have more resources available for nonmilitary purposes...
...Nixon and Soviet Boss Leonid Brezhnev on May 26, 1972. One section of SALT I-as this agreement is called -sharply limited the deployment of defensive anti-ballistic missiles. The purpose: to prevent ABMs, which can destroy offensive missiles, from disrupting-or, as the experts put it, "destabilizing" -the mutual-assured-destruction balance. A second part of SALT I, dealing with offensive weapons, froze the U.S. strategic arsenal at 1,710 land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and submarine-launched missiles (SLBMS); the Soviet arsenal was set at 2,358 ICBMS and SLBMS. The Russians were allowed a quantitative superiority...
Despite his angry words and Khrushchev-like fist pounding, Brezhnev conceded that a new SALT accord, based on the 1974 Vladivostok agreement, was still "quite attainable." If that was achieved, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. could "move forward to a mutual reduction of armaments." Brezhnev also sketched out a proposal for gradual Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab territories and hinted that the Russians might be receptive to Carter's proposal to limit the international arms trade...
...Graduate School of Design (GSD) was widely publicized. A week later, the Board of Overseers cancelled the visiting committee's next meeting. The Overseers said that further meetings of the GSD group would be unproductive because the leak, the visiting committee's second this year, "undermined the mutual confidence and trust that must run between the School and the Visiting Committee." By postponing the upcoming April meeting, the Overseers essentially abolished the present committee as the members' terms expire before meetings resume next year. One cannot help wondering, as one Harvard Corporation member suggested, how large a role embarrassment...