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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...principal factor in this frustration was not SDI. Nor did it have much to do with the reduction of strategic ballistic missiles. Instead, the insurmountable final obstacle to an agreement for next week proved to be the dilemma of how a START treaty should deal with a low-flying, slow-flying weapon that barely qualified as strategic. This is the nuclear-armed sea- launched cruise missile, a jet-powered drone that can be fired from a submarine or surface ship at targets on land...
...leads in the miniaturized guidance and propulsion systems for cruise missiles. Partly for that reason, the Soviets first wanted to ban SLCMs in START and later subject them to stringent limits. Some American military experts have argued that SLCMs are among the nastier creatures to emerge from the Pandora's box of nuclear weaponry, and that the U.S. should agree to ban them. They predict that the U.S.'s technological edge will prove temporary, while the geographical "asymmetries" between the superpowers are permanent -- and favor the Soviet Union. Key American cities and military installations are near the coasts, therefore easy...
...business in START was painfully slow. Karpov and his colleagues seemed determined to hold further progress on offensive reductions hostage until they extracted some indication of American flexibility on defenses...
...missiles as well as weapons on manned bombers. Karpov said 6,000 would represent roughly an overall 50% cut in strategic forces, since each side would cut from approximately 12,000 weapons. That was something of a magic number for the American side. Shultz told his staff that a START agreement would have to cut in half the most dangerous part of the strategic arsenals to satisfy Reagan's determination to achieve deep reductions. "Without 50%," he said, "the fun goes out of it for the President...
...Soviet negotiators were in a testy mood when talks resumed in January 1986. Tower made a conciliatory statement saying that despite the deadlock over SDI, there were a number of areas of "convergence" in START, and special working groups should be established to explore the "common ground...