Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Starting the campaign for a new U.S.-Soviet arms pact
...SALT II offensive has begun. With a powerful rhetorical barrage, the Carter Administration last week started fighting in earnest to win support for a new U.S.-Soviet strategic arms limitation treaty. In Chicago, National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski denounced "unwarranted alarmist" criticisms of the accord and declared that the treaty would "lead to more peaceful relations" between the two superpowers. In Manhattan a day later, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown called SALT "the foundation for progress In establishing an enduring political relationship with the Soviets that reduces tensions and sets important visible bound aries to our ideological and political...
Even as Administration spokesmen took to the hustings, there was a sense that the more than six years of negotiations on the accord might finally be drawing to a close. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance was awaiting a Soviet reply to U.S. proposals on the last issues blocking agreement...
...codes in missile tests and the definition of what constitutes new types of missiles. The U.S. has insisted that the Soviets must not scramble or "encrypt" the most essential electronic data being flashed from missiles to ground monitors during test flights. Keeping the transmissions readable would allow the U.S. to continue intercepting the Soviet test data needed to verify that Moscow is not violating SALT II. The U.S. has also proposed that an increase or decrease of more than 5% in the size of an existing missile would make the weapon a "new type," hence one whose development is restricted...
Except for relatively technical issues such as these, the outlines of SALT II have been in place for nearly two years. The centerpiece is a treaty, running through 1985, that would limit the American and Soviet strategic arsenals to a maximum of 2,250 strategic launchers, a category that includes intercontinental ballistic missiles (iCBMs), submarine-launched ballistic missiles and long-range bombers. Under this overall ceiling, some classes of weapons would be subject to further restrictions. Perhaps the most important would limit both countries to 1,320 strategic launchers carrying several warheads and known as MIRVS (multiple, independently targeted...