Don’t Trust and Don’t Verify. New Normality for New START

... and noted that it might be worthwhile not to try create a complex treaty in strategic arms control including an inspection regime but rather to embark upon the path of “parallel... ... parties agreed to extend the validity period of the Treaty until the conclusion of SALT-2 in 1979, which had been negotiated all along but stalled. 4 . The travesty of... ... crisis” was amplified not even by the elusive threat to the U.S. from a couple of thousand Soviet troops deployed in Cuba with a small number of armored vehicles, but by...