PERESTROIKA AND ARMS CONTROL

Abstract

Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika has had its most conspicuous success in restructuring US.‐Soviet relations. The INF treaty with the United States and the talks now under way on a prospective START agreement are major developments in international arms control. But Soviet START proposals are a threat to nuclear deterrence. START reductions in strategic nuclear weapons will decrease U.S. security dangerously unless they are implemented under the vrotective umbrella of a U.S. missile defense system.