Word: salt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skeptics have quickly pointed out. There is an acute irony here. Reagan's predecessor, Jimmy Carter, supported two of Dense Pack's forerunners, in part because he hoped to prove he was pro-defense and thereby win the support of Pentagon and congressional hawks for the beleaguered SALT II treaty. In the end, the Shell Game and Race Track ideas fell of their own weight, and Carter still failed to get SALT II ratified...
...should also use strategic arms control to maintain, and over time lower, the ceilings on Soviet ICBMS. The limits achieved to date have been, in the words of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "modest but significant"-and useful as precedents. The Soviets agreed in SALT II to dismantle some of their older weapons. Had the treaty gone into force, they would have been obliged under its terms to scrap more. And their proposal in START calls for still further reductions...
...current MX plan also represents a potentially devastating setback to arms control. Reacting to Reagan's speech, the Soviets objected that Dense Pack would violate SALT prohibitions on building new launchers. They have a strong case. The American rebuttal that Dense Pack silos are shelters rather than launchers is pure casuistry. But that is not the biggest problem. Because hundreds of the new ICBMS would substantially increase the vulnerability of the Soviet Union's fixed-site ICBMS, the Kremlin might be induced to deploy a new generation of mobile ICBMS. Land-mobile missiles are a nightmare for both...
...launched into a 90-minute attack on the Administration that seemed to reflect all the grievances of the Kremlin over the past three years. Korniyenko lambasted Washington's trade sanctions and its policy toward Eastern Europe, but reserved most of his fire for the U.S. failure to ratify SALT II. He assailed Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger by name, saying that "Weinberger continues cursing the SALT II treaty, and he hasn't even read it. He seems to be saying, 'My mind is made up, don't confuse me with the facts...
Beginning work in July 1981, the Bernardin committee held 14 hearings and heard from 36 witnesses, including Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and his predecessor, Harold Brown, SALT Negotiator Gerard Smith, as well as theologians, Bible scholars, physicians and peace protesters. Bernardin sent a copy of the first draft of the committee's report to the Pope, who is said to have approved...