START II: New thinking in an era of nuclear cooperation
On December 30, the Arms Control Association (ACA) called a special press conference on short notice, prior to the release of the treaty, when it became apparent that Presidents George Bush and Boris Yeltsin would sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treat (START II). This major milestone in the history of arms control keeps to the broad outlines of the dramatic announcements that followed the June 16-17 summit in Washington, where Bush and Yeltsin negotiated cuts as a follow-on to START I that will leave both sides with 3,000 to 3,500 nuclear warheads when fully implemented; the many dramatic changes in strategic force structure on both sides include elimination of all land-based multiple-warhead (MIRVed) ICBMs, long considered the most threatening and destabilizing weapons in either side's nuclear arsenal. The ACA press conference provided journalists with the only comprehensive background information available to them prior to the January 2 Moscow summit and signing ceremony. It was boradcast several times by C-Span. The panelists included Spurgeon M. Keeny, Jr., ACA president; Jack Mendelsohn, ACA deputy director; Ambassador Raymond Garthoff, a senior research fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Ted Warner, Soviet military affairs analyst for the Rand Corporation. 2 figs.
- OSTI ID:
- 6775518
- Journal Information:
- Arms Control Today; (United States), Vol. 22:10; ISSN 0196-125X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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