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Based primarily on the authors' personal experiences, this is the first study to reveal the inside story of how arms control decisions were made in the former Soviet Union. Savel'yev and General-Lieutenant Detinov participated directly in the decision-making process from 1969, when the Big Five was established, to the end of 1991, when the USSR was dissolved. They pay special attention to activities of the Politburo Commission for the Supervision of the Negotiations-the Big Five-and its working body, the interagency group known as the Five. They describe the key moments and main changes in the Soviet positions at SALT-I, SALT-II, INF, START, and DST.
List of contents
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Acknowledgments
The Historical Background
The Politburo Commission for the Negotiations
The Big Five and the Small Five
The SALT-II Talks: The Decision-Making Mechanism in Action
"Euromissiles" and the Principle of Equal Security
The START Negotiations and the Final Period of Superpower Confrontation
The Return to the Negotiations: The Prelude to Perestroyka
The Krasnoyarsk Affair
Perestroyka and the Further Refinement of the Decision-Making Mechanism
Medium-Range Nuclear Weapons Negotiations: Was the "Zero Option" Really So Bad?
The START Treaty: Who Made Concessions to Whom?
The Difficult Path to the START Treaty
Defense and Space Issues: A Field for Future Negotiations
The Big Five: From Its Birth to Its Death
Reflections
Index
About the author
Alexander' G. Savel'yev, Nikolay N. Detinov
Summary
Based primarily on the authors' personal experiences, this is the first study to reveal the inside story of how arms control decisions were made in the former Soviet Union.
