PART III -- THE REAGAN REVOLUTION IN DEFENSE AND ARMS CONTROL
Chapter 12 - Strategic Offensive: Modernization, START Reductions, Nuclear Deterrence and Testing
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Topics
- Historical Context: The Failed SALT Process, Reagan’s MAD Shock, No Nuclear “Abolition,” and Reagan’s Alternative Strategies
- Reagan’s Assessments of the Soviet Strategic Arms Buildup and “First Strike” Potential—1980 to 1981
- Reagan’s U.S. Strategic Force Modernization Program: Communications, Bombers, Submarines, Defenses, and MX—October 1981
- Reagan’s START Revolution in Strategic Arms Control: “Eureka”—May 1981 to June 1982
- START Negotiations Begin—May 1982 to November 1983
- U.S. Strategic Force Modernization: Congress, Scowcroft Commission, and Reagan—1982 to 1984
- U.S. START Flexibility: Trade-Offs , Scowcroft Commission, Build-Down, and Soviet Walk-Out—1982 to 1984
- START in the Nuclear and Space Talks (NST): The Second Term—1985 to 1989
- U.S. Strategic Force Modernization: The Second Term—1985 to 1989
- A Note on Reagan’s Strategic Confidence-Building Measures (CBMs)
- Reagan’s Continuing Nuclear Deterrence and Testing Requirements
- A Note on Reagan’s Nuclear Counter-Proliferation Policy
- Looking Back and Ahead
