Seeing the Forest Through the SEPs

In the mid-1970s, the Soviet Union proposed an ostensibly balanced step towards nuclear disarmament: if the U.S. agreed to ban its Trident Ohio-class submarine, the USSR would ban its “analogous” Soviet submarine. At first blush, this offer appeared to represent a reciprocal approach to reducing the superpowers’ nuclear capabilities related to submarine launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs). Read more....