Word: vladivostock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter proposal, which the Soviets have already rejected, make up about the only arguments that both hawks and doves in the U.S. can agree upon. Or so says Earl C. Ravenal, a former Defense Department policy-maker, in the September issue of The Atlantic Montly. The 1974 Vladivostock accord, he argues, pleased no one in this country: hawks were convinced the negotiated arms ceilings froze Soviet superiority in place, while doves saw the numbers game the negotiators played as just another example of "overkill." Either way, someone lost...
...despite the avowed willingness of the U.S. negotiators to do so, Ravenal does not see much room for compromise between the Vladivostock agreement and the Carter plan. More important, he says that even if the talks are "successful" in the traditional, treaty-signing sense, they will still not amount to much. In that, he may be right: the number of arms each side possesses has in many ways become irrelevant. That irrelevance, however, stems not from the fact that each side can already blow up the world dozens of times over, but from the fact that instability (what Ravenal says...
...accord's clearest failing has been its inability to bring East and West any closer to reducing or limiting their levels of armaments. The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, for example, have been almost completely deadlocked since President Gerald Ford and Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev met at Vladivostock in November 1974. There also has been little progress in the three-year-old Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions (MBFR) talks in Vienna between the twelve NATO nations and the seven Warsaw Pact states. It has been the dual aim of the NATO negotiators to reduce the number of troops based...