13. Record of Decisions of an Arms Control Policy Coordinating Committee Meeting1
Washington, April 21,
1989
The following were agreed to:
Nuclear and Space Talks
- 1.
- The United States should reaffirm the position that there is no linkage between conclusion of a START Treaty and resolution of Defense and Space issues.
- 2.
- The United States should continue to insist on separate START and Defense and Space negotiating groups.
- 3.
- The United States should maintain its position that no new treaties in the START and Defense and Space areas can be concluded without correction of the Soviet violation of the ABM Treaty involving the large phased-array radar at Krasnoyarsk.
Review of the U.S. START Position
- 1.
- The NSC staff will recirculate the Non-Deployed Missile (NDM) paper (a) dropping Option 3 (force SS-24 rebasing), (b) retaining all other options, and (c) recasting the options in terms of what missiles would be subject to constraints in each case (rather than in terms of changes to the existing U.S. negotiating position).
- 2.
- No further review of the heavy bomber definition is required at this time; the topic will be added to the START work program.
- 3.
- With regard to ALCMs, ALCM distinguishability Option 3 (more study) will be dropped. All other options will be retained. Agencies will provide comments on the ALCM paper by COB April 24, after which another version will be circulated.
- 4.
- In both the revised NDM paper and the revised ALCM paper agency positions will be omitted. The papers will set out and discuss options.
START Technical Review
- 1.
- The START Backstopping Committee technical review of the Joint Draft Text should identify policy issues for the Arms Control PCC, but should not attempt to resolve them or prepare decision papers on them pending further guidance from the PCC.
- Source: George H.W. Bush Library, Bush Presidential Records, National Security Council, Richard A. Davis Files, Subject Files, OA/ID CF01590–009, Arms Control PCC [2]. Secret.↩