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POLICY ISSUES IN AMERICAN SECURITY POLICY AND POLICY‐MAKING USING AND CONTROLLING NEW WEAPONS
Author(s) -
Coffey Joseph I.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
policy studies journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1541-0072
pISSN - 0190-292X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-0072.1979.tb01037.x
Subject(s) - cruise missile , software deployment , cruise , nuclear weapon , arms control , political science , nuclear energy policy , missile , gulf war , international trade , cold war , aeronautics , ballistic missile , foreign policy , security policy , public administration , computer security , law , business , engineering , economic history , politics , aerospace engineering , history , computer science , nuclear power , physics , software engineering , nuclear physics
NATO may be confronting a crisis over the cruise missiles. Some allies may seek longer‐range, nuclear‐armed missile which could enable them to strike at Soviet MR/IRBMs and at other targets inside the USSR; others (along with many Americans) aim at restricting both the range and the missions of cruise missiles. The first option could jeopardize detente, inhibit further progress in SALT and conceivably weaken American control over the uses of nuclear weapons in time of war. The second could cause strains between the United States and its European allies. The best policy would seem to be to (1) delay any decision on cruise missile development and deployment in Europe; (2) seek a two‐year freeze on all deployment of new nuclear delivery vehicles in Central Europe and of additional Soviet SS‐20 IRBMs; (3) use this “breathing space” to seek agreement on the limitation of cruise missiles, MR/IRBMs and other “gray area” weapons in the region “from the Atlantic to the Urals.”