Index

References are to document numbers

    • Aaron, David:
    • ABC–TV, 64
    • Ad Hoc Interagency Working Group, 126
    • Afghanistan, 245, 246, 248, 249, 250
    • Africa, 227
    • Aggregate levels (see also Equal aggregates):
    • Agreements, Soviet-U.S. (see also Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty; Interim Agreement; Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II)):
      • Agreed Interpretation and Common Understanding (May 26, 1972), 91, 93
      • Basic Principles of Negotiation on Strategic Arms Limitation (June 1973), 21, 24, 30, 39, 55, 56
      • Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (proposed), 191
      • Mutual nuclear defense pact (proposed), 83
      • No-first-use agreement proposal, 239
      • Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), 241
      • Outer Space Treaty, 110
      • Seabeds Treaty, 110
      • Strategic Arms Limitation Protocol (SALT II), text of, 242
      • Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I), 51, 64, 74, 90, 105, 116
      • Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II), text of, 241
      • Threshold Test Ban Treaty, 63, 64, 105, 110
    • Air defense, 8, 208
    • Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS), 100, 130, 154
    • Aircraft (see also Bombers):
    • Aircraft carriers, 17
    • Akalovsky, Alexander, 88
    • Alaska, 116
    • Albright, Madeleine, 248
    • Aleksandrov, Andrei M., 60, 70, 71, 88, 222
    • Aleksandrov-Agentov, Anatoly, 239, 240
    • Allison, Lt. Gen. Royal B., 2
    • Angola, 113, 114, 117, 124, 125, 134
    • Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty (see also Missiles):
      • Abrogation of, 130, 248
      • Amendment for limitation to one ABM-protected area, 60, 64, 67, 68, 69, 70
      • Article XIII, 19
      • Attacks on, 34
      • Implementation of, 1, 67
      • Joint affirmation as U.S. goal, 175
      • MIRV as hedge against Soviet violation of, 6
      • Protocol to, 72
      • Radar complexes allowed by, 2
      • Reviews of, 7, 174, 176, 179
      • Standing Consultative Commission role, 7, 67
    • Anti-submarine warfare (ASW), 74, 130, 139, 149, 174
    • Arab-Israeli War (Oct. 1973), 41
    • Arctic basing, 101, 113, 130, 154, 156
    • Arensburger, D., 239
    • Armitage, Richard, 69
    • Arms balance, 74
    • Arms control (see also Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II)), 245
    • Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), 2, 112, 139, 217
    • Arms race, 60, 81, 82
    • Assured inoperability, 202, 203, 204
    • Ausland, John, 34
    • Aviation Week, 101, 103, 105
    • Babenko, Yuri, 41
    • Backfire bombers. See Bombers.
    • Bahr, Egon, 155
    • Baker, Howard, 251
    • Balanced advantages, 76
    • Balanced asymmetries, 77
    • Bartholomew, Reginald:
      • Backfire bombers, 196
      • Brezhnev-Carter summit (June 1979), 240
      • Comprehensive package proposal, 210
      • Gromyko-Carter meetings, 183, 204, 218
      • NSC meetings, 198
      • Options for Vance’s Moscow talks, 198
      • Special Coordination Committee meetings, 194, 202, 223, 232, 250
    • Bellmon, Henry, 244
    • Belorussia, 60
    • Bentsen, Lloyd, 244
    • Berlin crisis (1953), 113
    • Bessmertnykh, Alexander A., 196, 204
    • Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali, 82
    • Boeing, 113
    • Bombers (see also Aircraft; Missiles; Soviet Union):
    • Boren, Daniel, 244
    • Boschwitz, Rudy, 244
    • Boverie, Col. Richard T.:
      • JCS’s negotiating perspectives, 145
      • NSC meetings, 113, 114, 119, 130, 139
      • Soviet view of prospects for SALT, 141
      • Status of SALT negotiations (Johnson letter), 146
    • Bowie, Robert, 170, 171, 173, 202, 223
    • Brandt, Willy, 60, 155
    • Bratchikov, Alexander, 72
    • Brezhnev, Leonid I.:
      • ABM Treaty, 70
      • Backfire bomber, 109, 210, 239
      • Carter summit with (Vienna, June 1979), 227, 239, 240
      • Chinese People’s Republic, 47
      • Cruise missile definitions, 233
      • Deadline for SALT II agreement, 30
      • Desire for SALT agreement, 74
      • Détente, 79, 80, 90, 101
      • Helsinki Summit, 100, 102, 103, 204
      • Implications for Soviet policy of SALT II impasse, 111
      • Kissinger’s meetings with:
      • Messages:
      • Military parity vs. superiority, 60
      • MX missile development, 239
      • Nixon meetings with, 68, 69, 70, 71
      • Political strength of, 101, 113
      • SALT II proposal of Oct. 1974, 84
      • Schmidt meetings with, 249, 250
      • Signing of SALT Treaty and Protocol, 241, 242
      • Soviet 15-year agreement proposal, 83
      • Soviet MIRV development, 47
      • Soviet objections to equality in throw-weight, 52
      • Soviet rejection of U.S. proposal of Mar. 1976, 133, 134, 135, 139
      • Stalemate in SALT II talks, 83
      • Telemetry, 235, 237
      • Timetable for negotiations in SALT II, 15
      • U.S. notes on SALT II, 60
      • U.S. pre-talks proposals, 3
      • U.S. presidential power, 172
      • U.S.-Soviet relations, 183
      • Vance’s meetings with, 157, 221, 222
      • Visits:
        • Bonn (May 1973), 28
        • United States (June 1973), 18, 20, 21, 29, 30, 32, 56
        • United States (Summer 1975), 92
        • Vienna (June 1979), 239
      • Vladivostok summit (Nov. 1974), 82, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91
    • Brezhnev, Viktoria, 88
    • Brookings Institution, 64
    • Brown, Gen. George S.:
      • Backfire as heavy bomber, 154
      • Brezhnev-Kissinger meetings, 125
      • Comprehensive package proposal, 207, 212
      • Deferral option, 131, 152
      • DOD-White House disagreements, 120
      • Efforts for SALT treaty ratification, 243
      • Guidance for Gromyko-Vance talks, 179, 207, 228
      • Instructions for U.S. delegates to SALT II, 104, 186, 211
      • JCS’s perspectives on SALT, 145, 220
      • NSC meetings, 74, 76, 90, 94, 101, 103, 105, 113, 114, 116, 130, 139, 178
      • Options for Vance’s Moscow talks (Mar. 1977), 154, 155, 156
      • SALT guidance for Gromyko visit (Sept. 1977), 174, 179
      • Senate’s declining to move SALT treaty to floor, 245
      • Soviet rejection of U.S. proposal of Mar. 1976, 135
      • Special Coordination Committee meetings, 149, 158, 170, 171, 173
    • Brown, Harold:
      • ALCMs, 173, 216, 228, 232
      • Backfire bombers, 154, 217
      • Brezhnev-Carter summit (June 1979), 239, 240
      • Brezhnev’s 1973 U.S. visit as impetus for SALT agreement, 18
      • Carter-JCS meetings, 225
      • Comprehensive package proposal, 207, 210, 212
      • Cruise missiles, 217
      • Gromyko-Carter meetings, 184, 204
      • Gromyko-Vance meetings, 179, 200, 201, 206, 219, 228, 229
      • Gromyko-Warnke meetings, 213
      • Heavy bomber definitions, 191, 223
      • Instructions for U.S. delegates to SALT II, 174, 186, 190, 192, 211
      • Jackson’s views on SALT, 150, 188
      • JCS problems with SALT, 236
      • MIRV verification, 191
      • Missile testing, 184
      • Negotiating strategies for SALT, 161, 163
      • Non-circumvention, 191
      • NSC meetings, 178, 198, 245
      • Options for Vance’s Moscow talks, 154, 155, 156, 198
      • Protection of options for multiple aim point (MAP) systems, 209
      • Review of SALT, 147
      • SALT guidance for Gromyko visit (Sept. 1977), 174, 179
      • SALT III principles, 205
      • Special Coordination Committee meetings, 149, 152, 158, 170, 171, 173, 194, 202, 206, 223, 232, 250
      • Timing for SALT treaty signing, 191
      • Two-package proposal, 176
      • U.S. strategies for SALT in 1978, 197
      • Verification Panel meetings, 51
    • Brzezinski, Zbigniew:
      • ABM Treaty, 176
      • ALCMs, 216, 217, 223, 228, 232
      • Backfire as heavy bomber, 154
      • Brezhnev-Carter summit (June 1979), 239, 240
      • Chinese People’s Republic impact on Soviet negotiating strategies, 162
      • Comprehensive package proposal, 207, 210, 212
      • Deferral option, 154
      • Dismantling/destruction procedures for bombers, 216, 217
      • Dobrynin-Carter meetings, 148, 159, 160
      • Dobrynin’s meetings with, 159, 172, 187
      • Gromyko-Carter meetings, 183, 203, 204, 217, 218
      • Gromyko-Vance meetings, 179, 185, 200, 201, 206, 207, 228
      • Gromyko-Warnke meetings, 213
      • Informal adherence to Interim Agreement, 248
      • Instructions for U.S. delegates to SALT II, 186, 190, 192, 202, 211
      • Jackson memo to Carter, 150
      • Negotiating strategies for SALT, 161, 163, 165, 166, 226
      • New types of missiles, 238
      • NSC meetings, 178, 198, 245
      • Options for Vance’s Moscow talks, 154, 155, 198
      • Oral message exchange on SALT, 233, 234
      • Outstanding issues in SALT talks, 188
      • Pace and strategy for U.S. efforts in SALT, 189
      • Political effects of SALT stalemate, 224
      • Post-signing questions about SALT, 247, 248, 249, 250
      • Prospects for SALT treaty ratification, 214, 251
      • SALT guidance for Gromyko visit (Sept. 1977), 174, 179
      • SALT III principles, 205
      • SALT review, 147
      • Senate’s declining to move SALT treaty to floor, 245, 247, 248, 249
      • Soviet perceptions on SALT, CIA assessment of, 169
      • Special Coordination Committee meetings, 149, 152, 158, 170, 171, 173, 176, 194, 202, 205, 206, 216, 223, 232, 249, 250
      • Telemetry, 237
      • Two-package proposal, 176
      • U.S. position on SALT, 168
      • U.S. strategies for SALT in 1978, 197
    • Bush, George H. W., 130, 134, 139
    • Butz, Earl, 58
    • Byrd, Robert, 224, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249
    • Callahan, James, 155
    • Carlucci, Frank, 245
    • Carter, James E. “Jimmy”:
      • ABM Treaty, 174, 175, 176, 179
      • ALCMs, 118, 216, 217, 232
      • Backfire bombers, 210, 213, 239
      • Brezhnev summit with (Vienna, June 1979), 227, 239, 240
      • Brezhnev-Vance meetings, 221, 222
      • Comprehensive package proposal, 210, 212
      • Cruise missile definitions, 174, 179, 211, 228
      • Deferral option, 154
      • Dismantling/destruction procedures for bombers, 216, 217, 218
      • Dobrynin-Vance meetings, 164
      • Dobrynin’s meetings with, 148, 159, 160
      • Electoral defeat of, 252
      • Gromyko-Vance meetings, 185, 200, 219, 227, 228, 229
      • Gromyko-Warnke meetings, 213
      • Gromyko’s meetings with:
      • Heavy bomber definitions, 191
      • Instructions for U.S. delegates to SALT II, 174, 186, 190, 192, 202, 211
      • JCS’s meetings with, 225
      • JCS’s perspectives on SALT, 145, 220
      • Kissinger’s proposals as abandoned by, 155
      • Messages:
      • MIRV verification, 191
      • Negotiating strategies for SALT, 161, 163, 165, 166, 226
      • New types of missiles, 238
      • Non-circumvention, 191, 225
      • NSC meetings, 178, 198, 245
      • Options for Vance’s Moscow talks:
      • Oral message exchange on SALT, 233, 234
      • Outstanding issues in SALT talks, 188
      • Pace and strategy for U.S. efforts in SALT, 189
      • Political effects of SALT stalemate, 224
      • Prospects and goals for SALT, 175
      • Prospects for SALT treaty ratification, 214
      • Protection of options for multiple aim point (MAP) systems, 209
      • Review of SALT, 147, 149
      • SALT guidance for Gromyko visit (Sept. 1977), 179, 180
      • Senate’s declining to move SALT treaty to floor, 245, 247
      • Signing of SALT Treaty and Protocol, 191, 241, 242
      • Soviet perceptions on SALT, CIA assessment of, 169, 181
      • Special Coordination Committee meetings, 149, 158, 170, 176, 202, 205, 206, 216
      • Summit invitation, 227
      • Telemetry, 235, 237
      • Two-package proposal, 176, 177
      • U.S. strategies for SALT in 1978, 197
      • Visit to Vienna (June 1979), 239
    • Case Act, 196
    • Ceauşescu, Nicolae, 103
    • Central Intelligence Agency (CIA):
      • Backfire capability estimates, 101, 103, 130
      • Détente, 79
      • Forward-based systems, 169
      • Implications for Soviet policy of SALT II impasse, 111
      • Negotiating strategies for SALT, 166
      • Soviet perceptions on SALT, 169, 181
      • Soviet vs. U.S. military spending, 244
      • Verification as emphasis in SALT II, 81
    • Chemical warfare, 15
    • Cheney, Richard, 113, 114, 116, 119, 125, 130, 139
    • Chernenko, Konstantin U., 239, 240
    • Chiles, Lawton, 244
    • China, People’s Republic of, 33
      • ABMs, 47
      • As future power, 47
      • As threat to Soviet Union, 83
      • Inclusion in SALT, possible, 249
      • MIRVs for Soviet defense against, 44
      • Missiles of, 81, 248
      • Mobile missiles as Soviet defense against, 148
      • Radar of, 47
      • Soviet bombers as prepared for use in, 101
      • Soviet defenses against, 44, 148, 208
      • Soviet negotiating strategies as impacted by, 162
      • Strategic arms reduction, 149
      • Submarine forces of, 81
      • United States, relations with, 40, 90, 227
    • China, Republic of, 47
    • Chou En-lai, 114
    • Christopher, Warren:
      • Efforts for SALT treaty ratification, 243
      • Gromyko-Vance meetings, 200, 201, 229
      • NSC meetings, 245
      • Special Coordination Committee meetings, 152
      • Visit to Afghanistan (1980), 245
    • Civil defense, 74, 116, 149, 155, 156
    • Clarke, Bruce, 250
    • Claytor, W. Graham, Jr., 245
    • Clements, William P., Jr.:
    • Clift, A. Denis, 149
    • Colby, William E., 127
    • Cold launches, 2
    • Compensating asymmetries, 80, 81, 85
    • Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) (see also Helsinki Summit), 102, 183, 204
    • Congress, U.S. (see also House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S.):
      • Attacks on SALT by members of, 80, 183, 188, 189
      • Backfire bombers, 210
      • Case Act, 196
      • Cruise missile funding, 113
      • DOD, relations with, 12
      • Equal aggregates, insistence on, 43, 90
      • Interim Agreement extension, 64, 173, 174
      • Jackson Amendment, 76, 82
      • Mobile (MX) ICBMs, 100, 244
      • NATO budget cuts by, 14
      • Non-circumvention, 171, 194
      • Protection of options for multiple aim point (MAP) systems, 209
      • Question of willingness to fund arms race, 81, 82
      • Two-package proposal, 177
    • Congressional Record, 45
    • Cranston, Alan, 251
    • Crisis of capitalism, 80
    • Crisis stability, 74
    • Cuba, 90, 117, 124, 243
    • Cuban missile crisis, 35
    • Culver, John C., 251
    • Custer, B. Scott, 2
    • Cutler, Lloyd, 243, 245, 247, 250, 251
    • Danforth, John, 244
    • Data exchange, 145, 242
    • David, Edward, 2
    • Davis, Jeanne W.:
      • Special Coordination Committee meetings, 149
      • Verification Panel meetings, 2, 34, 43, 45, 46, 51, 54, 64
    • DeConcini, Dennis, 244
    • Decoys, 14, 25
    • Defense, U.S. Department of (DOD):
      • Backfire bombers, 103, 217
      • Briefing charts for position on SALT, 58
      • Budget approval, 74
      • Budget cuts for, 14, 76
      • Budget projections for, 47, 103
      • Congress, relations with, 12
      • MIRV limitations, 29
      • Multiple aim point (MAP) mobile ICBMs, 202
      • Soviet SALT proposals, 84
      • Throw-weight decisions by, 64
      • Total obligational authority (TOA), 90
      • U.S. response to Soviet draft permanent agreement, 42
      • White House disagreements with, 77, 119, 120, 121, 122, 139
    • Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), 114
    • Defense Science Board, 74
    • DeGraf, Col. William, 2
    • Deng Xiaoping (Teng Hsiao-p’ing):
      • U.S. visit, 231
    • Depressed trajectory ban, 211, 218, 219
    • Derazhnya, 144, 173, 176, 183, 184, 186, 204
    • Détente:
    • Detinov, M. N., 183, 184, 204
    • Dialectics, 43
    • Dirksen, Everett M., 251
    • Dobrynin, Anatoly F.:
      • ABM Treaty, 67
      • Air defenses against Chinese People’s Republic, 208
      • ALCMs, 178
      • Backfire bombers, 118, 194, 196
      • Brezhnev-Carter summit (June 1979), 239, 240
      • Brezhnev-Kissinger meetings, 60
      • Brezhnev-Vance meetings, 222
      • Brezhnev’s 1973 U.S. visit as impetus for SALT agreement, 18, 20, 21
      • Brzezinski’s meetings with, 159, 172, 187
      • Carter’s meetings with, 148, 159, 160
      • Deadline for SALT II agreement, 30
      • Deferral option, 131
      • Gromyko-Carter meetings, 183, 184, 204
      • Gromyko-Kissinger meetings, 66, 143
      • Gromyko-Vance meetings, 221
      • Helsinki Summit, 103
      • Kissinger’s meetings with:
        • Dec. 16, 1972, 9
        • Mar. 8, 1973, 15
        • July 10, 1973, 38
        • Aug. 9, 1973, 32, 33, 38
        • Feb. 1, 1974, 52
        • Mar. 20, 1974, 57
        • Oct. 9, 1974, 78, 80
        • Dec. 2, 1974, 90
        • Dec. 10, 1974, 91
      • MIRV, 48, 58, 61, 178
      • New types of missiles, 238
      • Nixon-Gromyko meetings, 38, 52, 63
      • Nixon message to Brezhnev, 41
      • Soviet objectives for SALT II, 1, 3, 5, 9, 84
      • Telemetry, 237, 250
      • U.S. domestic opposition to SALT, 193
      • U.S. notes on SALT II, 57, 59, 60, 65, 78, 86, 97, 100, 115
      • U.S. SALT guidance for Gromyko visit (Sept. 1977), 174, 180
      • Vance’s meetings with, 161, 164, 194, 203, 218
      • Vladivostok summit (Nov. 1974), 88, 90
      • Warnke’s meetings with, 164, 171
    • Domenici, Pete, 244
    • Drones (RPVs), 105, 229, 230, 231, 233, 234
    • Duckett, Carl:
    • Duncan, Charles W., 155, 198, 225
    • Durenberger, David, 244
    • Earle, Ralph E., II, 36, 42
      • Brezhnev-Carter summit (June 1979), 239
      • Data exchange on strategic arms, 242
      • Special Coordination Committee meetings, 223, 250
      • Telemetry, 229, 232, 233, 250
      • Verification Panel meetings, 43, 45, 46, 51, 54, 64
    • Eisenhower, Dwight D., 58
    • Eizenstat, Stu, 155
    • Elections, U.S.:
    • Electronic Counter Measures (ECM), 14
    • Ellsworth, Robert, 68
    • Encryption. See Telemetry encryptation.
    • Endoatmostpheric penetration aids, 25
    • Equal aggregates (see also Aggregate levels):
      • Agreement on, 90, 105
      • Congressional insistence on, 43, 90
      • Deadlocking of talks over, 9, 74
      • European position, 81
      • MIRV limits vs., 76
      • Option on, 80
      • Qualitative limits combined with, 76
      • Soviet position, 84, 105
      • Throw-weight limits with, 80
      • U.S. position, 2, 4, 17, 23, 28, 46, 55, 75, 76
    • Equal asymmetries, 76
    • Equal deployment rights, 80, 81
    • Erath, Fritz, 249
    • Ermarth, Fritz, 236
    • European Security Conference. See Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE); Helsinki Summit.
    • Exoatmospheric decoys, 25
    • Exon, J.J., 244
    • Farley, Philip J., 2, 14, 18
    • Final Act of the Conference of Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), 204
    • Firebee (drone), 105
    • Five Year Defense Program, 244
    • Ford, Betty, 88
    • Ford, Gerald R.:
      • Assumption of Presidency by, 73
      • Brezhnev-Kissinger meetings:
      • Cruise missile development, 138
      • Deferral option, 131
      • DOD-White House disagreements, 77, 119, 120, 121
      • Feb. 1976 U.S. proposal for SALT, 140, 142
      • Helsinki Summit, 100, 102, 103, 204
      • Implications for Soviet policy of SALT II impasse, 111
      • Instructions for U.S. delegation to SALT II, 75, 93, 99, 127
      • Johnson’s recommendations for SALT II agreement, 128
      • Messages:
      • NSC meetings, 47, 58, 74, 76, 81, 90, 92, 94, 101, 103, 105, 113, 114, 116, 119, 130, 139
      • Scowcroft appointment as NSA assistant, 110
      • Soviet rejection of U.S. proposal of Mar. 1976, 134, 135
      • Soviet SALT II objectives, 84, 85
      • Stalemate in SALT II talks, 83
      • State of the Union speech (Jan. 1976), 117
      • Status of SALT negotiations (Johnson letter), 146
      • Vladivostok Agreement, 100
      • Vladivostok summit (Nov. 1974), 77, 82, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91
    • Forward-based systems (FBS):
      • As subject for bargaining, 3
      • Deadlock in talks over, 17
      • In SALT III talks, 106, 114, 239
      • NATO position, 6
      • Soviet perceptions on, CIA assessment of, 169
      • Soviet position:
        • As future issue, 106, 239
        • Dropping as precondition movement on, 40
        • Hardening of, 10, 71, 72
        • Insistence on compensation, 81
        • Revival as issue of, 157
        • Softening of, 64
        • U.S. rebuttal to, 8, 28
      • U.S. capabilities in, 90
      • U.S. position, 2, 4, 114
    • Fractional orbit bombardment systems (FOBS), 99, 101
    • France:
      • Grey area negotiation, 205
      • Missile forces, 76, 248
      • SLBMs, 80, 85
      • Strategic arms reduction, 149
      • Submarines, 47
      • Theater nuclear forces, 249
    • Freedom of the seas, 114
    • Fulbright, J. William, 51, 68
    • Functionally-related observable differences (FRODS) approach, 192
    • Gallup polls, 76
    • Gelb, Leslie:
    • General Staff (Soviet), 162
    • Geneva talks. See Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II).
    • Genscher, Hans-Dietrich, 155
    • Germany, Federal Republic of (FRG):
      • Cruise missile development by, 106, 217
      • Defense of, 114
      • Grey area negotiation, 205
      • Theater nuclear forces, 249
      • U.S. technological advantage over, 14
      • Use of tactical nuclear weapons in, 47
    • Granum, Rex L., 239
    • Graybeal, Sidney N.:
      • Forward-based systems, 28
      • NSC meetings, 47, 58, 68, 94
      • Verification Panel meetings, 43, 45, 46, 51
    • Great Britain. See United Kingdom.
    • Grechko, Marshall Andrei A.:
      • Attitude toward SALT, 64, 74, 101, 103
      • Détente and SALT II, 79
      • Development of SS–17 and 18 missiles, 33
      • Soviet negotiating instructions, 15
      • U.S forward-based systems, 90
    • Greece, 105
    • Grey area negotiation, 205
    • Grinevsky, Oleg, 17
    • Gromyko, Andrei A.:
      • ABM Treaty, 67
      • ALCMs, 216, 219
      • Backfire bombers, 182, 196, 200, 203, 204, 210, 213, 218
      • Brezhnev-Carter summit (June 1979), 239, 240
      • Brezhnev-Kissinger meetings, 60, 84, 117, 118, 119
      • Brezhnev-Nixon meetings, 70, 71
      • Brezhnev-Vance meetings, 222
      • Carter’s meetings with:
      • Comprehensive package proposal, 212, 213
      • Cruise missile definitions, 229, 230, 231
      • Cruise missiles as obstacle to agreement, 113
      • Dismantling/destruction procedures for bombers, 216, 218
      • Kissinger’s meetings with:
        • Oct. 22, 1973, 41, 44
        • Dec. 22, 1973, 44
        • Apr. 29, 1974, 64, 66
        • July 1, 1974, 72
        • July 10–11, 1975, 98
        • Sept. 19, 1975, 105, 106
        • Sept. 21, 1975, 107
        • Jan. 23, 1976, 124
        • Sept. 29, 1976, 143
      • MIRVs, 45, 48, 144, 178
      • Nixon meetings with:
        • Sept. 28, 1973, 38, 44
        • Feb. 4, 1974, 52
        • Apr. 12, 1974, 63
      • Six problem areas in SALT negotiations, 167
      • Soviet SALT talk instructions, 43
      • Stalemate in SALT II talks, 83
      • Three-part structure for SALT negotiations, 167
      • U.S. notes on SALT II, 66, 97, 108
      • Vance’s meetings with:
      • Visits:
      • Vladivostok Agreement, 94, 98
      • Vladivostok summit (Nov. 1974), 88
      • Warnke’s meeting with, 211, 212, 213
    • Gromyko, Lydia D., 143
    • Guam, 116
    • Haig, Gen. Alexander M., 58, 68, 70, 71, 74
    • Harlow, Bryce, 47
    • Harriman, W. Averell, 113
    • Hart, Gary, 189, 245, 251
    • Hartman, Arthur A., 60, 66, 88, 90, 143
    • Hayakawa, S.I., 244
    • Hebert, Edward, 74
    • Heinz, John, 244
    • Helms, Richard M., 2, 16
    • Helsinki Summit (see also Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE)), 100, 102, 103, 204, 227
    • Hill, Robert C., 34
    • Holloway, Adm. James L., III, 127
      • DOD-White House disagreements, 119, 120, 139
      • NSC meetings, 119
      • Options for SALT II negotiations, 116
      • Special Coordination Committee meetings, 152
    • Holy Loch, 3, 4, 76
    • Horn of Africa, 199
    • House of Representatives, U.S.:
      • Appropriations Subcommittee, 105
      • Armed Services Committee, 105
      • Defense budget approval by, 74
    • Humphrey, Hubert H., 101, 139
    • Hunter, Robert, 159
    • Hyland, William:
      • ABM Treaty, 34
      • Brezhnev-Kissinger meetings, 60
      • Brezhnev-Nixon meetings (June 1974), 70, 71
      • DOD-White House disagreements, 122
      • Gromyko-Carter meetings, 183, 184
      • Gromyko-Kissinger meetings, 66, 143
      • Kissinger-Dobrynin meeting, 32
      • NSC meetings, 113, 114, 116, 130, 139, 178
      • Options for Vance’s Moscow talks (Mar. 1977), 155
      • Reexamination of SALT II, 35
      • SALT II second session, Soviet omnibus proposal, 19
      • Soviet perceptions on SALT, CIA assessment of, 169
      • Soviet SALT II objectives, proposal of Oct. 1974, 85
      • Special Coordination Committee meetings, 149, 152, 170, 171, 173
      • Three Soviet questions on MIRVs, 48
      • U.S. note on SALT II, 57, 86
      • Verification Panel meetings, 2, 34, 45, 46, 64
    • Iceland, 103
    • Ikle, Fred:
    • India, 245
    • Indian Ocean, 154, 245
    • Ingersoll, Robert S.:
      • Instructions for U.S. delegates to SALT II, 75, 104
      • NSC meetings, 74, 76, 81, 90, 94, 101
      • Standing Consultative Commission, 69
    • Initial operational capability (IOC), 139
    • Interagency Working Group, 80
    • Interim Agreement (see also Agreements, Soviet-U.S.):
      • Article I, 91
      • Article II, 89, 91
      • Article III, 25
      • Article IV, 25
      • Article V, 25
      • Article VI, 25
      • Article VIII, 25
      • Congressional deliberation on, 64, 173, 174
      • Criticisms of, 47
      • Expiration of, 114
      • Extension of:
      • Implementation of, 1
      • Incremental nature of, 110
      • Inequities of, 2, 3, 50
      • Informal adherence to, 247, 248
      • Jackson’s views on, 2, 3, 50
      • Lapsing of, 74
      • MIRVs in, 45
      • Protocol to, 25, 36
      • SCC, provisions for, 89
      • Silo dimensions, 100, 101
      • Soviet provision of data on requirements of, 247
      • Standing Consultative Commission as called for in, 7, 69, 89
      • Submarine restrictions, 14, 66
      • U.S. military capabilities as affected by, 64
      • U.S. views on Soviet position, 3, 21, 34
    • Iran, 103, 106, 227, 245
    • Irwin, John N., II, 2, 6
    • Israel, 103, 114
    • Jackson Amendment, 76, 82
    • Jackson, Henry M.:
      • As hawk, 47
      • Codicil proposal for SALT agreement, 95
      • Criticisms of SALT II, 188
      • Defense spending cuts, 14
      • Equal aggregates, 50, 90
      • Interim Agreement, 2, 3, 50, 60
      • Launcher equality, 80
      • Messages:
        • From Nixon, 56
        • To Carter, 150
        • To Nixon, 50
      • MFN status for the Soviet Union, 45
      • Proposals for SALT II, 50, 150
      • Seen as obstacle in negotiations, 46, 64, 71
      • Throw-weight, 43
      • Verification of treaty provisions, 94, 114
    • Japan, 14, 47, 114
    • Jobert, Michel, 60
    • Johnson, Lyndon B., 251
    • Johnson, U. Alexis:
      • Appointment as head of U.S. SALT II delegation, 17
      • Backfire bombers, 128
      • Brezhnev-Kissinger meetings, 62
      • Brezhnev’s 1973 U.S. visit as impetus for SALT agreement, 18, 20, 21
      • FBS, 17
      • Instructions for U.S. delegates to SALT II, 23, 25, 39, 40, 55, 73, 74, 75, 81, 93, 99, 104, 127, 136
      • Message to Ford, 146
      • MIRVs, 17, 97
      • NSC meetings, 14, 47, 68, 74, 90, 105, 114, 116, 119, 139
      • Recommendations for SALT II agreement, 128
      • Silo size increase limits, 96
      • Special Coordination Committee meetings, 149
      • SSBN standoff, 28
      • Standing Consultative Commission meetings, 28
      • Status of SALT negotiations, 28, 146
      • U.S. counterdraft as response to Soviet draft permanent agreement, 42
      • Verification Panel meetings, 43, 45, 46, 51, 54, 64
      • Vladivostok Agreement, 94
    • Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS):
      • ABM Treaty, 68
      • Backfire as seen by, 154, 188, 191, 210, 217, 220
      • Bargaining options for SALT II, 12, 81, 113
      • Carter’s meetings with, 225
      • Comprehensive quantitative approach as favored by, 27
      • Cruise missiles, 112, 217
      • DOD-White House disagreements, 120, 121
      • Feb. 1976 U.S. proposal for SALT, 139
      • Interim Agreement extension, 68
      • Launcher equality, 80
      • Memoranda:
        • CJCS Memo M–1073, 12
        • CJCS Memo M–4473, 22
        • CJCS Memo M–7273, 36
        • JCSM–7779, 236
        • JCSM–35978, 236
        • JCSM–39676, 145
        • JCSM–42575, 112
      • Minuteman survivability, 13
      • Mobile ICBMs, 100
      • MX missiles, 236
      • Non-circumvention provisions, 236
      • Percentage of total force megatonnage in Backfire, 114
      • Perspectives on SALT II, 31, 145, 178, 220
      • Problems with SALT, 236
      • Protection of options for multiple aim point (MAP) systems, 209
      • SALT I, 74, 116
      • SALT III principles, 205
      • Schlesinger meeting with (Aug. 30, 1973), 36
      • Special Coordination Committee meetings, 206
      • Standing Consultative Commission role as seen by, 2
      • Three year protocol proposal, 236
      • U.S. counterdraft as response to Soviet draft permanent agreement, 42
      • U.S. strategies for SALT in 1978, 197
      • Verification, 145, 236
      • White House, conflict over SALT II with, 26
    • Joint Strategic Planning Document (1980–1981), 236
    • Jones, Gen. David C.:
      • Brezhnev-Carter summit (June 1979), 239, 240
      • Comprehensive package proposal, 210
      • Gromyko-Vance meetings, 219
      • JCS position on SALT, 236
      • NSC meetings, 81, 198
      • Number of ALCMs per bomber, 232
      • Options for Vance’s Moscow talks, 198
      • Senate’s declining to move SALT treaty to floor, 245
      • Special Coordination Committee meetings, 194, 202, 206, 223, 232
    • Jordan, Hamilton, 183, 184, 204, 239, 240, 245
    • Judd, Walter, 47
    • Kahan, Jerry, 232
    • Karpov, V. P., 239, 242
    • Keegan, Gen. George J., Jr., 139
    • Keeny, Spurgeon:
    • Kelly, John H., 106
    • Kennan, George, 162
    • Kennedy, Edward M., 64, 95
    • Kennedy, Rose, 204
    • Kirilenko, Andrei P., 103
    • Kissinger, Henry A.:
      • ABM Treaty, 7, 67, 68
      • ALCMs, 112, 159
      • Backfire bombers, 100, 101, 105, 113
      • Backfire/SCLM proposal, 119
      • Brezhnev-Nixon meetings, 70, 71
      • Brezhnev’s 1973 U.S. visit as impetus for SALT agreement, 18, 20, 21
      • Brezhnev’s meetings with:
      • Briefing charts for DOD’s SALT position, 58
      • Carter’s abandonment of proposals of, 155
      • Cruise missiles, 100, 101, 105, 113
      • Deadline for SALT II agreement, 30
      • Defense budget projections, 47
      • Deferral option, 131
      • Détente, 79
      • Dobrynin’s meetings with:
        • Dec. 16, 1972, 9
        • Mar. 8, 1973, 15
        • July 10, 1973, 38
        • Aug. 9, 1973, 32, 33, 38
        • Feb. 1, 1974, 52
        • Mar. 20, 1974, 57
        • Oct. 9, 1974, 78, 80
        • Dec. 2, 1974, 90
        • Dec. 10, 1974, 91
      • DOD-White House disagreements, 77, 120, 121, 122
      • Gromyko-Nixon meetings, 38, 52, 63
      • Gromyko’s meetings with:
        • Oct. 22, 1973, 41, 44
        • Dec. 22, 1973, 44
        • Apr. 29, 1974, 64, 66
        • July 1, 1974, 72
        • July 10–11, 1975, 98
        • Sept. 19, 1975, 105, 106
        • Sept. 21, 1975, 107
        • Sept. 25, 1975, 109
        • Jan. 23, 1976, 124
        • Sept. 29, 1976, 143
      • Heavy ICBMs, 100, 105
      • Helsinki Summit, 102, 103, 204
      • Instructions for U.S. delegates to SALT II, 7, 16, 39, 54, 55, 75, 93, 104, 127, 136
      • Interim Agreement, 36
      • Issues for SALT II’s first session, 4
      • Jackson’s SALT II proposal, 50
      • JCS-White House conflict over SALT II, 26
      • Johnson’s recommendations for SALT II agreement, 128
      • Military parity vs. superiority, 60
      • Minuteman survivability, 13
      • MIRVs:
        • Alternatives for limitations, 14, 27, 29
        • Limitation as critical issue in negotiations, 24, 29
        • Three Soviet questions on, 48
        • Throw-weight proposal for, 46, 51, 58
        • Verification of, 100, 144
      • Mobile ICBMs, 100
      • Nixon message to Brezhnev, 41
      • NSC meetings, 14, 47, 58, 68, 74, 76, 81, 92, 94, 101, 103, 105, 113, 114, 116, 130, 139
      • Reexamination of SALT II, 35
      • SALT I, 64
      • Soviet objections to equality in throw-weight, 53
      • Soviet objectives for SALT, 1, 84, 85
      • Soviet omnibus proposal, 19
      • Soviet rejection of U.S. proposal of Mar. 1976, 134, 135, 139
      • Soviet SALT II objectives, 3, 5, 9, 40
      • Speech to UNGA (Sept. 30, 1976), 143
      • Status of negotiations in SALT II, 17, 28
      • Status of SALT II negotiations, 17, 28, 96
      • Thinking within the bureaucracy about SALT, 37
      • U.S. counterdraft as response to Soviet draft permanent agreement, 42
      • U.S. four-step proposal, 22
      • U.S. notes on SALT II, 57, 59, 60, 78, 86, 97, 108, 115
      • U.S. position on SALT II, 107
      • Verification Panel meetings, 2, 4, 22, 34, 43, 45, 46, 51, 54, 64, 90
      • Visits:
        • China (Nov. 1973), 40
        • Geneva (Dec. 1973), 44
        • Geneva (Apr. 1974), 66
        • Moscow (May 1973), 24, 32, 34
        • Moscow (Oct. 1973), 41
        • Moscow (Mar. 1974), 54, 60, 63
        • Moscow (June–July 1974), 38, 54, 60, 63, 71, 72, 76
        • Moscow (Oct. 1974), 73, 78
        • Moscow (Apr. 1975) (proposed), 88
        • Moscow (Jan. 1976), 114, 117, 118, 123, 124, 125, 133
      • Vladivostok Agreement, 93, 94, 95, 100, 106
      • Vladivostok Summit (Nov. 1974), 87, 88, 89, 91
    • Kissinger, Nancy, 143
    • Kistiakowsky, George, 58
    • Klosson, Boris, 34, 46, 51, 54, 64
    • Knoche, Enno, 149, 152
    • Komplektov, Viktor G., 173, 183, 204, 240
    • Korniyenko, Georgi M.:
      • Brezhnev-Carter summit (June, 1979), 239, 240
      • Brezhnev-Kissinger meetings, 60
      • Brezhnev-Nixon meetings, 70, 71
      • Brezhnev-Vance meetings, 222
      • Gromyko-Carter meetings, 183, 184, 204
      • Gromyko-Kissinger meetings, 66, 72, 143
      • Gromyko-Vance meetings, 201, 221, 231
      • Vladivostok Summit, 88
      • Warnke’s meetings with, 173, 213
    • Kosygin, Alexei N., 43, 70, 71, 79
    • Kozlov, Gen. Mikhail M., 117, 118, 119, 130, 201
    • Kraft, Joseph, 64
    • Krimer, William D., 182, 183, 184, 204, 218
    • Laird, Melvin R.:
      • Bargaining leverage options for SALT II, 12
      • Forward-based systems, 71
      • Instructions for U.S. delegates to SALT II, 6, 7, 16
      • Mobile ICBMs, 101
      • NSC meetings, 47
      • Standing Consultative Commission, 11
    • Lance, Bert, 149, 152, 155
    • Lasers, 58, 64, 103
    • Launchers (see also Silos):
      • Definitions, 191, 192, 194, 202
      • Equality of, 80
      • Limitations on, 14
      • Minuteman II and III, 191, 239
      • Soviet proposal for banning from seabed, 23, 96
      • Transport and erector (TEL), 155
    • Leber, Georg, 123
    • Lehman, John F., 139, 140
    • Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV), 113
    • Lodal, Jan M.:
      • Brezhnev-Kissinger meetings, 60
      • Brezhnev-Nixon meetings, June 1974, 70
      • Briefing charts for DOD’s SALT position, 58
      • NSC meetings, 47, 58, 68, 74, 76, 90, 94, 101, 105
      • Projections for throw-weight of missiles, 74
      • Soviet Aide-Mémoire, 89
      • Soviet objections to equality in throw-weight, 53
      • Soviet SALT II proposal of Oct. 1974, 85
      • Three Soviet questions on MIRVs, 48
      • U.S. notes on SALT II, 57, 65
      • U.S. position on SALT II, 107
      • Verification Panel meetings, 43, 45, 46, 51, 54, 64, 90
      • Vladivostok Agreement, 95, 100
      • Vladivostok Summit, 89
    • Long-Range Theater Nuclear Forces (LRTNF), 248, 249, 250
    • Lord, Winston, 54, 143
    • Mahon, George H., 113
    • Makarov, Vasili, 66, 143, 183, 184, 204
    • Malenkov, Georgy, 103
    • Maneuverable Re-entry Vehicles (MARVs), 12
    • Mansfield, Mike, 51
    • Marsh, John, 119
    • Mathias, Charles, 95
    • Maximum system operational range (MSOR), 191, 211
    • McClellan, John L., 14
    • McCloskey, Robert J., 66
    • McCrory, Raymond, 170, 173, 194, 202, 223, 232, 250
    • McFarlane, Lt. Col. Robert, 119
    • McGovern, George, 251
    • McIntyre, Thomas J., 58, 113
    • McNamara, Robert, 58, 68, 74, 103
    • Mediterranean nuclear-free zone proposal, 60
    • Merritt, Col. Jack, 2
    • Middle East, 41, 72, 101, 103, 109, 114, 134, 157, 187, 215
    • Mildenhall, RAF, 105
    • Military parity, 60
    • Minimum deterrence, 80
    • Missiles (see also Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty; Bombers; Multiple independently-targeted re-entry vehicles (MIRVS); Soviet Union; Submarines; Throw-weight):
    • Molander, Roger:
      • Brezhnev-Carter summit (June 1979), 239
      • Instructions for U.S. delegates to SALT II, 104
      • NSC meetings, 103, 116
      • Options for SALT II negotiations, 126
      • Post-signing questions about SALT, 247, 248
      • Prospects for SALT treaty ratification, 251
      • Senate’s declining to move SALT treaty to floor, 247, 248
      • Special Coordination Committee meetings, 149, 152, 170, 171, 173, 194, 202, 223, 249, 250
      • U.S. position on SALT, 168
    • Mondale, Walter:
      • ALCMs, 228
      • Carter-era negotiating strategies for SALT, 161, 163
      • Comprehensive package proposal, 207, 212
      • Defense budget, 64
      • Détente, 47
      • Dobrynin-Carter meetings, 159
      • Gromyko-Carter meetings, 183, 184
      • Gromyko-Warnke meetings, 213
      • Instructions for U.S. delegates to SALT II, 190, 211
      • Kennedy/Mathias/Mondale resolution, 95
      • NSC meetings, 178, 198, 245
      • Options for Vance’s Moscow talks, 155, 156, 198
      • Review of SALT, 147, 149
      • SALT guidance for Gromyko visit (Sept. 1977), 179
      • SALT III principles, 205
      • Senate’s declining to move SALT treaty to floor, 245
      • Special Coordination Committee meetings, 149, 152, 158, 232
      • Two-package proposal, 177
    • Moore, Frank, 240
    • Moorer, Adm. Thomas H.:
      • ABM Treaty, 64, 68
      • Instructions for U.S. delegates to SALT II, 7, 16, 25, 39, 55
      • NSC meetings, 14, 58, 68
      • SALT I, 116
      • Schlesinger-JCS meeting (Aug. 30, 1973), 36
      • U.S. counterdraft as response to Soviet draft permanent agreement, 42
      • U.S. four-step proposal, 22
      • Verification Panel meetings, 34, 46, 51, 54, 64
    • Most-favored nation status (MFN), 45, 51, 54, 105
    • Multiple aim point (MAP) systems, 202, 205, 206, 209
    • Multiple independently-targeted re-entry vehicles (MIRVs) (see also Missiles):
      • Alternative U.S. proposals for, 178
      • As bargaining chips, 3
      • As hedge against Soviet violation of ABM Treaty, 6
      • B–1 use of, 117, 118, 119
      • B–52 use of, 114, 117, 118
      • Bombers counting as “one” in total for, 114
      • Control of, 10
      • First-strike advantages of, 47
      • For Soviet defense against Chinese People’s Republic, 44
      • Freestanding agreement on, possible, 64
      • In interim agreement, 45
      • Limitations on:
        • Alternatives to, 14, 27, 29
        • As critical issue in negotiations, 24, 29
        • By category, 43
        • DOD position, 29
        • Equal aggregates vs., 76
        • For Poseidon missiles, 29
        • Numerical disagreements, 71
        • Principles for negotiation on, 32
        • Progress in agreement on, 90
        • Reduction on levels, 179
        • Soviet position, 58, 166
        • U.S. proposals, 97
      • MARVs used with, 12
      • Minuteman limits for, 29, 43, 71
      • On cruise missiles, 236
      • On MX, 85
      • On SS–18, 43, 47, 139
      • On SS–X–18, 45, 51
      • On Trident missiles, 43, 49
      • Qualitative improvements as codeword for, 74, 81
      • SLBMs as included in throw-weight limit proposal for, 49, 53
      • Soviet development of, 47
      • Soviet flexibility on, 40
      • Soviet paper on, 32
      • Soviet position, 16, 17, 33, 233
      • Soviet’s three questions on, 48
      • Standing Consultative Commission monitoring of deployment of, 101
      • Throw-weight proposal for, 46, 51, 55, 58
      • Throw-weight, stability and, 68
      • U.S. proposal for banning of, 23
      • U.S. proposals for limits on Minuteman IIIs, 22
      • Verification of:
      • Vladivostok Summit discussions of, 88
    • Multiple re-entry vehicles (MRVs), 54
    • Murmansk, 106
    • Muskie, Edmund, 64, 113, 249, 250
    • Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions (MBFR), 32, 80, 113, 157, 244, 245
    • Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), 181
    • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 14
    • National Intelligence Estimates:
      • NIE 41177, 210
      • NIE 113/875, 112, 116
      • NIE 11575, 110
      • NIE 11873, 82
    • National Intelligence Memorandum (NIM 77025), 181
    • National Security Council (NSC):
      • Bargaining options for SALT II negotiations, 129
      • Meetings:
      • Weekly Report #79, 224
      • Weekly Report #81, 226
      • Weekly Report #96, 238
    • National Security Decision Memoranda:
    • National Security Study Memorandum, NSSM 195, 64
    • NSSM 202, 64
    • National Technical Means (NTM), 96, 184, 209, 239, 241
    • Navy, Soviet, 113
    • Navy, U.S., 100
    • New York Times, 45, 64, 71, 224
    • Newhouse, John, 194, 223
    • Nitze, Paul H., 12, 28, 36, 130, 188, 197
    • Nixon, Richard M.:
      • ABM Treaty, 7, 68, 70
      • Brezhnev-Kissinger meetings, 61
      • Brezhnev meetings with, 68, 69, 70, 71
      • Brezhnev visit (June 1973), 30
      • Chinese People’s Republic, 47
      • Deadline for SALT II agreement, 30
      • Gromyko meetings with:
        • Sept. 28, 1973, 38, 44
        • Feb. 4, 1974, 52
        • Apr. 12, 1974, 63
      • Instructions for U.S. delegates to SALT II, 7, 16, 23
      • Jackson’s SALT II proposal, 50
      • Japan, 47
      • JCS, conflict over SALT II with, 26
      • Messages:
        • From Brezhnev, 15, 41, 43
        • From Jackson, 50
        • To Brezhnev, 41
        • To Jackson, 56
      • Military parity vs. superiority, 60
      • MIRV limitations as critical issue in negotiations, 29
      • NSC meetings, 14, 47, 58, 68
      • Podgorny’s talks with, 63
      • Pompidou meeting with (Reykjavik, May 1973), 103
      • Resignation of, 73
      • SALT II first session, 4, 7, 10
      • Silo size, 238
      • Soviet omnibus proposal, 19
      • Standing Consultative Committee, 2, 11
      • Visits:
        • Moscow (June–July 1974), 70, 71, 72
        • Reykjavik (May 1973), 103
    • Non-central systems, 76
    • Non-circumvention/Non-transfer issues:
    • North Atlantic Council, 2, 81, 194
    • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO):
      • Arms control, 245
      • Congressional budget cuts on, 14
      • Cruise missiles, 125, 128
      • European nuclear powers within, 153
      • Forward-based systems, 6
      • Non-central systems, 76
      • SALT negotiations effect on, 150
      • Soviet wedge-driving opportunities in, 249, 250
      • Warsaw Pact forces in relation to, 76, 113
    • Norway, 106
    • Nuclear-free zone proposals, 60
    • Nuclear Planning Group (NPG), 123
    • Nuclear-powered ships, 105
    • Nuclear testing:
    • Nuclear war:
      • Fatality levels from, 74
      • Minuteman survivability during, 2, 13, 34, 51, 188
      • Soviet-U.S. discussions of, 82
    • Nuclear weapons:
      • Soviet proposal for non-transport in strategic bombers of, 10
      • Tactical, 47
    • Nunn, Sam, 244
    • Odeen, Philip:
      • Alternatives to limitations on MIRVs, 27
      • Minuteman survivability, 13
      • NSC meetings, 14
      • Status of SALT II negotiations, 17, 28
      • Thinking within the bureaucracy about SALT, 37
      • Verification Panel meetings, 2, 34
    • Odom, William E., 162
    • Office of Management and Budget (OMB), 90
    • Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD):
      • Minuteman survivability, 13
      • Mobile ICBMs, 100
      • Options for SALT II talks, 54
      • SALT Task Force, 36
      • Standing Consultative Commission’s role as seen by, 2
    • Ogarkov, Marshal Nikolai N., 162, 200, 201, 222, 239, 240
    • Operational Base Launch Program, 58
    • Outer space, 110, 241
    • Qualitative improvements, 74, 81
    • Qualitative limitations, 4, 76
    • Radar:
      • Chinese, 47
      • Dog House (Soviet), 47
    • Radar harassment vehicles, 217
    • RAND Corporation, 105
    • Reagan, Ronald W., 134, 252
    • Remotely-piloted vehicles (RPVs), 105, 229, 230, 231, 233, 234
    • Research and Development (R&D), 2, 58, 64, 74, 101
    • Richardson, Elliot L., 14, 18, 23, 25
    • Rickover, Adm. Hyman, 45
    • Rockefeller, Nelson A.:
      • Cruise missile development, 138
      • NSC meetings, 94, 105, 114, 116, 119, 130
      • Soviet rejection of U.S. proposal of Mar. 1976, 134
    • Rodman, Peter W., 44, 60, 66, 143
    • Rogers, William P., 14, 15, 23, 25
    • Romania, 103
    • Roper polls, 76
    • Rota, 3, 4, 88
    • Rowny, Lt. Gen. Edward L., 130
      • Backfire bombers, 114, 200
      • NSC meetings, 47, 119
      • Schlesinger-JCS meeting (Aug. 30, 1973), 36
      • Special Coordination Committee meetings, 149, 152, 170
      • Verification Panel meetings, 34, 43, 45, 46, 51, 54, 64
    • Rumsfeld, Donald:
      • Brezhnev-Kissinger meetings, 125
      • Cruise missiles, 112
      • Deferral option, 131
      • DOD-White House disagreements, 120
      • Instructions for U.S. delegates to SALT II, 127, 136
      • JCS’s negotiating perspectives, 145
      • NSC meetings, 76, 81, 90, 94, 101, 105, 113, 114, 116, 130, 139
      • Soviet rejection of U.S. proposal of Mar. 1976, 134
    • Rush, Kenneth:
      • Brezhnev’s 1973 U.S. visit as impetus for SALT agreement, 18
      • NSC meetings, 14, 47, 58, 68
      • SALT II, Instructions for U.S. delegates to, 55
      • Verification Panel meetings, 2, 43, 45, 46, 51, 54
    • Sadat, Anwar, 226
    • Sary Shagan, 2
    • Sanguine Project, 101, 114
    • Scali, John, 64
    • Schecter, Jerrold, 240
    • Schlesinger, James R.:
      • ABM Treaty, 68
      • Backfire bombers, 92
      • Cruise missiles, 125
      • Forward-based systems, 106
      • Instructions for U.S. delegates to SALT II, 16, 25, 39, 55, 93, 99, 104
      • JCS meeting with (Aug. 30, 1973), 36
      • JCS views on SALT II, 31
      • Launcher equality, 80
      • New ICBM program, call for, 53
      • NSC meetings, 14, 47, 58, 68, 74, 76, 81, 90, 92, 94, 101, 103, 105
      • Soviet’s SALT II proposal of Oct. 1974, 84
      • U.S. counterdraft as response to Soviet draft permanent agreement, 42
      • Verification Panel meetings, 2, 45, 46, 54
    • Schmidt, Helmut, 249, 250
    • Schmitt, Harrison, 244
    • Schultz, George, 58
    • Schweiker, Richard, 244
    • Scott, Hugh, 51, 101
    • Scowcroft, Gen. Brent, 39, 40, 42
      • ABM Treaty, 67
      • ALCMs, 112
      • Appointment as NSA assistant, 110
      • Bargaining options for SALT II negotiations, 129
      • Brezhnev-Kissinger meetings:
      • Brezhnev message to Nixon, 41
      • Brezhnev-Nixon meetings (June 1974), 71
      • Deferral option, 131
      • DOD-White House disagreements, 77, 119, 120, 121, 122
      • Future SALT talks, 90
      • Heavy missiles, 124
      • Implications for Soviet policy of SALT II impasse, 111
      • Instructions for U.S. delegates to SALT II, 25, 75
      • JCS’s negotiating perspectives, 145
      • Johnson’s recommendations for SALT II agreement, 128
      • NSC meetings, 14, 47, 58, 68, 74, 76, 81, 90, 101, 103, 105, 113, 114, 116, 119, 130, 139
      • Soviet 15-year agreement proposal, 83
      • Soviet rejection of U.S. proposal of Mar. 1976, 134, 135
      • Soviet view of prospects for SALT, 141
      • Status of SALT negotiations (Johnson letter), 146
      • U.S. notes on SALT II, 65, 78, 97
      • Verification Panel meetings, 34, 43, 45, 46, 51, 54, 64
      • Vladivostok Agreement, Jackson codicil proposal for, 95
      • Vladivostok Summit, 88
    • Seafarer Project, 114
    • Seignious, Gen. George, 223, 232, 239, 240
    • Semenov, Vladimir S.:
      • Brezhnev’s 1973 U.S. visit as impetus for SALT agreement, 18, 20
      • Deadlock in talks over FBS issue, 17
      • Equal aggregates, 28
      • MIRVs, 17
      • SALT II instructions for, 43
      • Silo size increase limits, 96
      • Soviet Defense Ministry views on SALT II, 15, 74
      • Soviet view of prospects for SALT II, 141
      • SSBN standoff, 28
      • Standing Consultative Commission, 9
      • Weakness in negotiating authority of, 90
    • Senate, U.S.:
      • Armed Services Committee, 68, 244
      • Declining to bring SALT treaty to floor, 245, 247, 248, 249
      • Defense appropriations, 60
      • Foreign Relations Committee, 189, 243, 244, 248, 251
      • Intelligence Committee, 244
      • Kennedy/Mathias/Mondale resolution, 95
      • Minimum deterrence, 80
      • Prospects for SALT treaty ratification, 234, 248, 251
    • Shanghai Communiqué, 191
    • Shaw, John P., 2
    • Shchukin, Aleksandr N., 17, 18, 28, 43, 51, 96
    • Shelepin, Alexander N., 101
    • Ships, 105, 119
    • Shulman, Marshall, 196
    • Shultz, Charles, 64
    • Sick, Gary, 149
    • Silos (see also Launchers):
      • Contents verification, 90, 100
      • Covers for, 90
      • For Minuteman, 101
      • Interim Agreement on dimensions of, 100, 101
      • Limits on increases in size for, 93, 96, 98, 101, 124, 127, 238
      • Moratorium on construction of, 78, 90
      • Soviet:
        • Building of new, 37, 40
        • Concealment of, 170, 173
        • Conversion of, 74, 76, 81
        • Current numbers of, 47, 53
        • For SS–9, 35
        • For SS–11 missiles, 35, 64, 76
        • III–X, 209
      • U.S., 37, 82
    • Simpson, Alan, 244
    • Sinai, 103
    • Single Integrated Operating Plan (SIOP), 114, 130
    • Sisco, Joseph, 64, 68, 69, 103, 105, 119
    • Sitrin, David, 152
    • Slocombe, Walter:
    • Sloss, Leon, 45, 149, 152
    • Smith, Gerard C., 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 17
    • Smith, Lt. Gen. William Y., 171, 173, 194, 196, 202, 223, 232
    • Smolin, Victor, 28
    • Sokolov, Oleg, 60
    • Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I., 51, 54
    • Sonnenfeldt, Helmut:
      • Brezhnev-Kissinger meetings, 60, 84
      • Brezhnev-Nixon meetings (June 1974), 70, 71
      • DOD-White House disagreements, 122
      • Gromyko-Kissinger meetings, 66, 72, 143
      • Instructions for U.S. delegates to SALT II, 8, 104
      • Interim Agreement, 3
      • MIRVs, 48, 144
      • Nixon-Gromyko meetings, 38, 63
      • NSC meetings, 14, 47, 58, 68, 113, 114, 116, 130, 139
      • Reexamination of SALT II, 35
      • Soviet objections to equality in throw-weight, 53
      • Soviet SALT II objectives, 3, 84, 85
      • Status of SALT II negotiations, 17, 96
      • U.S. counterdraft as response to Soviet draft permanent agreement, 42
      • U.S. notes on SALT II, 57, 86, 100
      • U.S. position on SALT II, 107
      • Verification Panel meetings, 2, 43, 46, 51, 54, 64, 90
      • Vladivostok Agreement, Jackson codicil proposal for, 95
      • Vladivostok Summit, 88
    • Soviet Union (see also Bombers; Missiles; Multiple independently-target re-entry vehicles (MIRVs); Silos; Soviet subheadings under other subjects; Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II); Vladivostok Summit):
      • ABM removal by, 2
      • Afghanistan invasion, 245, 246, 248, 249, 250
      • Banning of mobile ICBMs, proposal for, 96, 98, 100, 166
      • Chemical warfare proposal requested by, 15
      • Chinese People’s Republic as threat to, 83
      • Civil defense program of, 74
      • Communist Party Congress (25th, Feb.–Mar. 1976), 101, 103, 105, 109, 133
      • Cruise missiles:
      • Defense ministry views on SALT II, 15, 74
      • Defenses against Chinese People’s Republic, 44, 148, 208
      • Détente, 46, 54, 60, 74, 79, 80, 90, 105, 111
      • Dismantling/destruction procedures for bombers, 211, 216, 217, 218, 233, 241, 250
      • Doghouse radar, 47
      • Economic situation, 74, 79
      • Equal aggregates, 17, 28, 84, 105
      • First-strike capacity prospects of, 113
      • Forces for international conflict of, estimated, 113, 114
      • Forward-based systems:
        • Dropping as precondition movement on, 40
        • Hardening of position on, 10, 71, 72
        • U.S. rebuttal to proposals on, 8, 28
      • General Staff’s role in, 162
      • Grey area negotiation, 205
      • Interim Agreement:
        • Extension of, 58, 60, 62, 64, 68, 72
        • Provision of data required by, 247
        • U.S. views on Soviet position, 3, 21, 34
      • Invasion of Norway, possible, 106
      • LRTNF wedge-driving opportunities in NATO by, 249, 250
      • Military spending levels, 244
      • Mutual nuclear defense pact proposal by, 83
      • Naval power of, 113, 244
      • Negotiating instructions for SALT, 15, 43
      • Non-transport of weapons in strategic bombers, proposal by, 10
      • Nuclear war discussions of, 82
      • Omnibus SALT II proposal before Brezhnev visit, 19, 20, 21
      • Oral message exchange on SALT, 233, 234
      • Policy implications for SALT II impasse, 111
      • SALT II talks resumption as confirmed by, 1
      • SLBMs, 3, 10, 19, 28, 39, 204
      • Special Consultative Committee, 17, 247
      • Standing Consultative Commission, 17, 247
      • Strategic forces as seen in, 166
      • Submarine force levels, 35, 47, 60
      • Survivability of missile forces of, 74
      • Tactical nuclear weapons development by, 47
      • Throw-weight, 14, 52, 53, 81, 105
      • Trident proposals by, 3, 33
      • United States, relations with, 74, 79, 80, 183, 227, 239
      • U.S. credit restrictions, 105
      • U.S. grain sales to, 109
      • U.S. military spending vs. that of, 244
      • U.S. sentiment against, 105
      • Verification rules, 105, 144
      • Vladivostok Agreement, 98, 100, 111
    • Special Coordination Committee (SCC):
      • Heavy bomber definitions, 191
      • Meetings:
        • Feb. 3, 1977, 149
        • Feb. 25, 1977, 152
        • Apr. 7, 1977, 158
        • June 7, 1977, 170
        • June 20, 1977, 171
        • July 11, 1977, 173
        • Aug. 18, 1977, 174, 176
        • Aug. 30, 1977, 176
        • Jan. 9, 1978, 192
        • Mar. 6, 1978, 194
        • May. 12, 1978, 202
        • June 12, 1978, 205
        • July 7, 1978, 206
        • Sept. 1, 1978, 211
        • Sept. 29, 1978, 216, 217
        • Oct. 26, 1978, 223
        • Nov. 3, 1978, 223
        • Jan. 12, 1979, 232
        • Mar. 21, 1979, 237
        • June 6, 1980, 249, 250
      • Review of SALT, 147, 149
    • Spiers, Ronald, 14
    • Stalin, Joseph, 47, 162
    • Standing Consultative Commission (SCC):
      • Dismantling/destruction procedures for bombers, 211
      • Establishment of, 4, 7, 10, 11
      • Guidelines for formation of, 1, 7, 9
      • Interim Agreement provisions for, 7, 69, 89
      • JCS view of, 2
      • Meetings of, 28, 247, 248
      • Memorandum of Understanding on, 11, 19, 241
      • MIRV deployment as monitored by, 101
      • OSD view of role of, 2
      • Role in ABM Treaty of, 7, 67
      • Roles for, 2, 17
      • Signing of agreed procedures for, 69
      • Soviet downplaying of, 17
      • Soviet provision of data on requirements of Interim Agreement, 247
      • Telemetry, 235, 239
      • Treaty role of, 241
      • U.S. staffing of, 2, 11
      • Verification Panel role in, 7
    • Stennis, John, 51, 68
    • Stoertz, Howard, 149, 152, 171
    • Stoessel, Walter J., Jr., 60, 70, 71, 72, 88
    • Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II) (see also Agreements, Soviet-U.S.; SALT subheadings under other subjects; Soviet Union; Vladivostok Summit (Nov. 1974)):
      • Backfire as obstacle to agreement, 106, 109, 111, 112, 113, 117, 204, 218
      • Backfire/SCLM proposal, 119
      • Bargaining options for, 12, 81, 112, 113, 114, 116, 121, 126, 129
      • Brezhnev’s 1973 U.S. visit as impetus for agreement, 18, 20, 21
      • Briefing charts for DOD position, 58
      • Carter-era negotiating strategies, 161, 163, 165, 166, 170, 226
      • Chinese People’s Republic impact on Soviet negotiating strategies, 162
      • Chinese People’s Republic inclusion in, possible, 249
      • Communiqués for, 72
      • Comprehensive agreement seen as unlikely, 58
      • Comprehensive package proposal, 207, 210, 212, 213
      • Comprehensive quantitative approach to, 27
      • Congressional attacks on, 80, 183, 188, 189
      • Critique of U.S. negotiating strategies for, 226
      • Cruise missiles as obstacle to agreement, 111, 112, 113
      • Data exchange, 145, 242
      • Dates for resumption of, possible, 38, 39
      • Deadline for agreement, 30
      • Deferral option, 131, 152, 154
      • Depressed trajectory ban proposal, 211, 218, 219
      • Discussion of U.S. and Soviet proposals (Oct. 1974), 84
      • DOD-White House disagreements on, 77, 119, 120, 121, 122, 139
      • Entering into force of, 239
      • European position, 81
      • First session:
        • Deadlocking of, 9
        • Instructions for U.S. delegates to, 6, 7, 8
        • Opening of, 4
        • Recessing of, 9
        • Results of, 10
        • Soviet objectives for, 1, 3, 5, 9
        • U.S. objectives for, 2
      • French inclusion in, possible, 149
      • Future SALT talks, 90, 91, 97
      • Guidance for Gromyko-Vance talks, 179, 206, 207, 227, 228
      • Guidance for Gromyko visit (Sept. 1977), 174, 179, 180
      • Helsinki Summit discussion of, 100, 102, 103, 204, 227
      • Instruction to U.S. delegates:
        • First session (Nov.–Dec. 1972, 6, 7, 8
        • Mar. 1973, 16, 17
        • May 1973, 23, 25
        • Sept. 1973, 39, 39A
        • Feb. 1974, 54, 55
        • Sept. 1974, 73, 74, 75, 81
        • Jan. 1975, 93
        • July 1975, 99
        • Aug. 1975, 104
        • Feb. 1976, 127
        • June 1976, 136
        • Aug. 1977, 174
        • Oct. 1977, 186
        • Nov. 1977, 190
        • Jan. 1978, 192
        • May 1978, 202
        • Sept. 1978, 211
      • Instructions for Soviet delegates to, 15, 43
      • Interagency Working Group options for, 80, 81
      • Jackson’s views on, 50, 60, 150, 188
      • JCS position, 31, 35, 80, 145, 178, 220, 225, 236
      • JCS-White House conflict over, 26
      • Joint draft text (JDT), 146, 209
      • Minimum goals for, 175
      • NATO as affected by, 150
      • Options for Vance’s Moscow visits, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 198, 199
      • Oral message exchange on, 233, 234
      • OSD options for, 54
      • Outline of U.S. proposal for agreement, 35, 78
      • Outstanding issues in, 188, 191
      • Pace and strategy for U.S. efforts in, 189
      • Political implications, 110, 224, 227
      • Post-signing changes to, possible, 251
      • Post-signing questions about, 247, 248, 249, 250
      • Program analysis’ role in, 37
      • Projected strategic balance, 74
      • Prospects for, 175
      • Ratification of Treaty:
      • Reexamination of, 35
      • Restraints on specific strategic programs, 27
      • Resumption of in 1977, 158
      • Review of, 147, 149
      • Senate decision to not bring treaty to floor, 245, 247, 248, 249
      • Signing of, 240, 241, 242
      • Six problem areas in, 167
      • Soviet draft on basic principles of negotiation, 21, 24, 30
      • Soviet draft permanent agreements, 40, 42
      • Soviet fifteen-year agreement proposal, 83
      • Soviet notes on, 1, 133
      • Soviet objectives for, 1, 3, 5, 9, 84, 85
        • Draft on basic principles of negotiation, 21, 24, 30
        • Draft permanent agreement, 40, 42
        • Fifteen-year agreement proposal, 83
        • Proposal for banning of mobile missiles, 96, 98, 100, 166
        • Proposal of Oct. 1974, 84, 85
        • U.S. position, 3, 5, 9
      • Soviet omnibus proposal, 19, 20, 21
      • Soviet paper (July 27, 1973) and U.S. response, 32
      • Soviet perceptions on, CIA assessment of, 169, 181
      • Soviet proposal of Oct. 1974, 84, 85
      • Soviet rejection of U.S. proposal of Mar. 1976, 133, 134, 135, 139
      • Soviet view of prospects for, 141
      • Stalemates in, 83, 224
      • Status of negotiations, 17, 28, 96, 146
      • Strategic arms levels as affected by lack of SALT agreement, 112, 129, 188
      • Task force, 36
      • Technological change’s impact on Soviet negotiating strategies, 162
      • Text of Protocol to treaty, 242
      • Text of treaty, 241
      • Thinking within the bureaucracy about, 37
      • Three-part structure for, 167
      • Three year protocol proposal, 167, 170, 198, 204, 210, 213, 218, 228, 231, 233, 236
      • Timetable for, 15, 148
      • Two-package proposal, 175, 176, 177
      • U.S. domestic opposition to, 193
      • U.S. four-step proposal, 22
      • U.S. notes on, 57, 59, 60, 65, 66, 67, 78, 86, 97, 100, 108, 115, 132
      • U.S. objectives for, 74
      • U.S. position, 38, 107, 168
      • U.S. pre-talks proposals, 3
      • U.S. proposal (Feb. 1976), 132, 139, 140, 142
      • U.S. proposal (Mar. 1976), 132, 133, 134, 135, 137, 139
      • U.S.-Soviet differences in negotiating history on, 76
      • U.S. strategies for 1978, 197
      • U.S. timing for treaty signing, 191
      • Verification Panel options, 80, 81
      • Vladivostok Agreement, 93, 94
        • As basis for negotiations, 159
        • Impasse in, 106, 107, 108, 109, 111
        • Jackson codicil proposal for, 95
        • Joint draft text, 99, 104, 202, 211, 234
        • Soviet plans for resolution of issues in, 98, 100
        • Unraveling of, 106
        • U.S. issues for further discussion, 96
        • Weakness of arguing on principles, 24
    • Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I), 51, 64, 74, 90, 105, 116
    • Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT III):
      • Backfire bombers in, 112, 114, 130
      • Cruise missiles in, 112
      • Forward-based systems in, 106, 114, 239
      • Principles for:
        • Depressed trajectories, 219
        • Establishment of, 158, 170, 191, 203
        • JCS position, 205
        • Strategies for negotiation on, 197
        • Strengthening of, 227
        • U.S. proposals, 190, 198
      • Soviet desire for, 74
      • Theater nuclear force discussion in, 249
      • U.S. desire for, 63
    • Strategic force modernization, 225
    • Strategic forces, 166
    • Submarine bases:
      • As subject for bargaining, 3
      • Holy Loch, 3, 4, 76
      • Rota, 3, 4, 88
    • Submarines (see also Missiles):
      • British, 47
      • Chinese, 81
      • D-class, 43, 53, 64
      • French, 47
      • Interim Agreement restrictions on, 14, 66
      • Soviet force levels of, 35, 47, 60
      • Standoff on deployment of SSBNs, 28
      • Sturgeon-class (SSM–668), 119
      • Trident, 34, 60, 139
        • Limiting of, 85, 90, 105
        • Planned numbers for deployment, 76
      • Typhoon (Soviet), 85, 90, 139
      • U.S. force levels of, 64
    • Subsonic cruise armed decoy (SCAD), 233
    • Sukhodrev, Victor M.:
      • Brezhnev-Carter summit (June 1979), 239, 240
      • Brezhnev-Kissinger meetings, 60
      • Brezhnev-Nixon meetings, 71
      • Gromyko-Carter meetings, 183, 184, 204, 218
      • Gromyko-Kissinger meetings, 143
      • Gromyko Washington visit (Sept. 1977), 182
      • Kissinger-Dobrynin meetings, 38
      • Kissinger-Gromyko meetings, 44, 66
      • Nixon-Gromyko meetings, 63
      • Vladivostok summit (Nov. 1974), 88
    • Survivability:
      • Of Minuteman during nuclear war, 2, 13, 34, 51, 188
      • Of Soviet missile forces, 74
    • Suslov, Mikhail A., 79
    • Symington, Stuart, 34, 54
    • Syria, 187
    • Target acquisition, 114
    • Technological change, 162
    • Telemetry encryptation (see also Verification):
    • Teller, Edward, 116, 125, 130
    • Terrain contour matching (TERCOM) navigation system, 105, 119
    • Theater Nuclear Forces (TNF), 248, 249, 250
    • Thompson, James, 249
    • Throw-weight (see also Missiles), 37
      • Accuracy vs., 148
      • As bargaining point, 43
      • Deadlocking of talks over, 74
      • DOD decisions regarding, 64
      • Equal aggregates with, 80
      • Levels of, 4, 14
      • MIRV proposal on, 46, 51, 55, 58
      • MIRVs, stability and, 68
      • Normalized vs. demonstrated, 54
      • Of SLBMs, 49, 53
      • Projections for, 74
      • Soviet advantages in, 14
      • Soviet objections to equality in, 52, 53
      • Soviet position, 81, 105
      • U.S. position, 75, 76, 90
    • Toon, Malcolm, 218
      • Backfire bombers, 191
      • Brezhnev-Carter summit (June 1979), 239, 240
      • Brezhnev-Vance meetings, 221
      • Gromyko-Carter meetings, 183, 184, 204
      • Gromyko-Warnke meetings, 213
    • Total obligational authority (TOA), 90
    • Tower, John, 14
    • Transport and erector launchers (TEL), 155
    • Trusov, Konstantin A., 28
    • Tucker, Gardiner, 2, 12
    • Turkey, 105, 114
    • Turner, Stansfield M.:
      • Comprehensive package proposal, 207, 210, 212
      • Guidance for Gromyko-Vance talks, 179, 207, 228
      • Instructions for U.S. delegates to SALT II, 211
      • NSC meetings, 178
      • Number of ALCMs per bomber, 232
      • Options for Vance’s Moscow talks, 154, 155, 156, 198
      • Prospects for SALT treaty ratification, 214
      • SALT guidance for Gromyko visit (Sept. 1977), 174, 179
      • Senate’s declining to move SALT treaty to floor, 245
      • Soviet perceptions on SALT, CIA assessment of, 169
      • Special Coordination Committee meetings, 158, 170, 173, 194, 223, 232
    • Tyruratum test site, 137, 166, 173
    • Undersecretary of State’s Principals and Regional Staff Meeting, 69
    • United Kingdom (UK), 116
      • Grey area negotiation, 205
      • SLBMs, 80, 85
      • Strategic missile program, 248
      • Submarines of, 47
      • Theater nuclear forces, 249
    • United Nations Charter (Article 102), 241
    • United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), 143, 215
    • Ustinov, Dmitriy F., 74, 141, 239, 240
    • Utgoff, Victor, 149, 152, 168, 170, 171
    • Vance, Cyrus R.:
    • Vavilov, Andrei, 60, 240
    • Venice Summit, 249, 250
    • Verification (see also Telemetry encryptation):
    • Verification Panel:
      • Meetings, 14, 68
        • Oct. 31, 1972, 2, 4
        • Nov. 3, 1972, 2, 4
        • Mar. 2, 1973, 14
        • Apr. 25, 1973, 17
        • Apr. 30, 1973, 22, 29
        • Aug. 15, 1973, 34
        • Mid-Sept. 1973 (proposed), 34
        • Nov. 23, 1973, 43
        • Dec. 28, 1973, 45
        • Jan. 8, 1974, 46
        • Jan. 30, 1974, 51
        • Feb. 15, 1974, 51, 54
        • Apr. 23, 1974, 64
        • Apr. 27, 1974, 64
        • Aug. 30, 1974, 73
        • Sept. 9, 1974, 74
        • Oct. 17, 1974, 81
        • Jan. 3, 1975, 90
        • Jan. 10, 1975, 90
        • July 24, 1975, 100, 101
        • Sept. 10, 1975, 105
        • Dec. 19, 1975, 112
        • Jan. 5, 1976, 116
        • Feb. 5, 1976, 126
        • Feb. 10, 1976, 130
        • July 13, 1976, 136, 139
      • MIRVs, 46
      • Papers prepared by, 17, 28
      • SALT II options, 80, 81
      • Standing Consultative Commission as directed by, 7
    • Vienna talks, 72
    • Vietnam War, 14, 68, 101
    • Vladivostok Summit (Nov. 1974) (see also Soviet Union; Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II)):
      • Accomplishments of, 90
      • Agenda of, 87
      • Agreements made at, 93, 94
      • Joint communiqué, 88
      • Soviet Aide-Mémoire, 89
      • Soviet inflexibility, 77
      • Soviet proposal of Oct. 1974, 84, 85
      • U.S. Aide-Mémoire, 91
    • Vorontsov, Yuli M., 134, 143
    • Wade, James P., Jr., 105, 114, 116, 125, 139
    • Wall Street Journal, 90, 188
    • Walters, Lt. Gen. Vernon A., 51, 58, 76
    • Warner, John W., 244
    • Warnke, Paul, 218
      • ABM Treaty, 175
      • ALCMs, 173, 232
      • Brezhnev-Vance meetings, 221
      • Carter-era negotiating strategies for SALT, 161, 163
      • Comprehensive package proposal, 207, 210, 212
      • Dobrynin-Vance meetings, 164
      • Dobrynin’s meetings with, 164, 171
      • Gromyko-Carter meetings, 183, 184, 204
      • Gromyko’s meeting with (Sept. 1978), 211, 212, 213
      • Guidance for Gromyko-Vance talks, 179, 206, 207, 228
      • Instructions for U.S. delegates to SALT II, 211
      • Korniyenko’s meetings with, 173, 213
      • NSC meetings, 178, 198
      • Options for Vance’s Moscow talks, 154, 155, 156, 198
      • Pace and strategy for U.S. efforts in SALT, 189
      • Prospects and goals for SALT, 175
      • Resumption of SALT talks in 1977, 158
      • Review of SALT, 147
      • SALT guidance for Gromyko visit (Sept. 1977), 174, 179, 180
      • Soviet perceptions on SALT, CIA assessment of, 169
      • Special Coordination Committee meetings, 152, 158, 170, 171, 173, 202, 206
      • Two-package proposal, 176, 177
      • U.S. strategies for SALT in 1978, 197
      • Visit to Moscow (Sept. 1978), 211, 212, 213
    • Warsaw Pact, 76, 113
    • Watergate, 64
    • Weiss, Seymour, 34, 42, 43, 46, 51, 54
    • Welch, Jasper, 247, 250
    • Western Europe, 116, 153
    • Wexler, Anne, 243
    • Wickham, Maj. Gen. John, 68
    • Wikner, N. Frederick, 36, 43, 45, 46, 51, 54, 64
    • Wolfowitz, Paul, 149
    • Wood, Archie, 2, 12, 34
    • Yamanaka, Sadanori, 81
    • Young, Milton, 14