INSTRUCTIONS FOR SALT, GENEVA, SEPTEMBER 24, 1973

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-556-3-7-4
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• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 28, 1973
• Content Type: MEMO

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INSTRUCTIONS APPLY
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
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National Security Decision Memorandum 233
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The Secretary. of Defense
The Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Chairman, U.S. SALT Delegation
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SUBJECT: Instructions for SALT, Geneva, September 24, 1973 ?
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During the initial stages (Dallis phase a negotiations the U.S. Delegation
should seek to obtain USSR reaction to the U.S. proposals put forward in
Geneva last May. The U.S. position set forth in NSDM 213 and 216 remains
unchanged, and will be reviewed by the President only after receiving the
USSR response.
In supporting the U.S. position, the Delegation should emphasize the following
points:
1, The U.S. Delegation is guided by the Basic Principles of Negotiations
on the Further Limitations of Strategic Offensive Arms. The position of the
United States is fully consistent with these SALT principles.
2. ? The U.S. position is also based on the conviction that SALT must
deal effectively, and in a verifiable manner, with the need to control
developments which would provide first strike capabilities against major com-
ponents of either side's deterrent forces. The ICBM programs now being
pursued by the Soviet Union are of particular concern in this regard.
No action should be taken by the Delegation to foreshadow any changes in the
'&S. position. if the USSR Delegation seeks further details of the U.S.
position going beyond existing guidance (NSDMs 213, 216 and as appropriate
206 and 197), the Chairman of the Delegation should seek additional instruc-
tions. In the event of counterproposals by the 'USSR, the U.S. Delegation
should seek their full exposition but refrain from expressing any U.S. views
'until receipt of instructions.
cc: C1airman1.. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Director, Central Intelligence
Henry A. Kissinger
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National Security Decision Memorandum 213
TO:
The Secretary of State
The Acting Secretary of Defense
The Acting Director, Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency
Chairman, U.S. SALT Delegation
SUBJECT: Instructions for SALT Talk
The President has approved the following instructions for the U.S.
Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks beginning on
May 4, 1973 in Geneva.
1. The overall U.S. objective continues to he a permanent
agreement limiting strategic offensive arms which provides a high
degree of equivalency in cent strategic systems ... ICBMs, SLBMs
and heavy bombers.
Z. The U.S. Delegation should emphasize again that such a
permanent agreement must Incorporate equal aggregate limits on the
number of ICBMs, SLBMs and heavy bombers. The Delegation should
take the position that the U.S. would be prepared to accept an equal
level for both sides of 28350. There would be appropriate provisions
to permit the substitution of SLBMs and heavy bombers for ICBMs and
for each other. In this context the United States would be prepared to
consider:
a, qualitative limitations on strategic offensive ballistic missile
forces;
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? b. prohibiting the development, testing and deployment of air.
to.surface missiles with a maximum range greater than 3,000 kilometers;
C. measures to assure that the agreement would not be circumvented
through deployment of non-central systems;
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d. the Soviet proposal to ban the development testing and
deployment of:
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cruise missiles of intercontinental range;
strategic ballistic missiles on water.borne vehicles
other than submarines;
strategic ballistic missiles on airborne platforms;
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fixed or mobile devices for launching ballistic missiles,
which could be emplaced on the seabed or ocean floor
or in the subsoil thereof, including the territorial sea
and internal waters;
a program for achieving a reduced level of strategic forces.
3. At a meeting subsequent to outlining this position on a
permanent agreement, the U.S. Delegation should state that the
United States is prepared to move ahead promptly to conclude a
provisional agreement freezing ICBM MIRVs to accompany the Interim
Agreement. This provisional agreement would prohibit the development,
testing, production, and deployment of new and modified MIRV/MRV
systems for ICBMs. Deployment of other ICBM MIRV/MRV systems
would be limited to those operational and under conversion as of
July 1, 1973, and confidence testing of such ICBM MIRV/MRV systems
would be permitted.
In presenting this proposal, the U.S. Delegation should emphasize the
importance of controlling MIRVs on ICBMs promptly in order to preserve
the survivability of deterrent forces, enhance strategic stability, and
reduce the risk of nuclear war. The provisional agreement on MIRVs
would remain in force until supplanted by a permanent agreement. In
this connection the Delegation should make clear that the provisions of
a permanent agreement regarding.MIRV could be modified to reflect
the degree of permanent equivalence achieved in the overall levels of
strategic forces.
4. In elaborating on this proposal, the U.S. Delegation should
present the following basic provisions and collateral constraints:
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The development, flight testing, produetion and deployment
of new or modified ICBM MRV/MIRV systems (either dispensing
mechanisms or RVs) is prohibited.. New ICBM MRV/MIRV systems
are defined as those ICBM MRV/MIRV systems which had not been
night tested as of January 3., 1973.
The deployment of other ICBM MLRV/MRV systems is
limited to numbers operational or under construction/conversion
as of July 1, 1973.
The flight testing of ICBM MRV/MIRVs is limited to
confidence testing of the MRV/MIRV systems currently deployed
and only in association with missiles with which they have been flight
tested previously.
The development, flight testing, production and deployment
of endoatruospheric penetration aids and new or modified dispensing
mechanisms for exoatmospheric decoys is prohibited.
The development, flight testing, production and deployment
of maneuvering re..entry vehicles for ICBMs is prohibited.
5. On the question of restraint, the U.S. should put forth the
view that restraints should support specific agreements limiting
strategic offensive arms, and should be aimed at developments which
threaten the survivability of the deterrent forces of the other side. It
is net possible to deal with the restraints question in specific terms
ontil the terms of a possible concrete agreement become clear.
6: On the question of throw vtright, the Delegation should take the
position that in the context of adequate controls on MIRV a ceiling on
f*arther increases in ICBM throw weight would be acceptable. (Such a
proposal would be pursued in the context of paragraph Za.above).
The President has asked me to emphasize once again the im, ortance
of avoiding leaks on this subject.
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Henry A. Kissinger
cc: Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Director of central Intelligevce.
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