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SALT: a realist agreement without undue complacency, by Stanley Hoffmann The second Americano-Soviet treaty on the strategic arms control (SALT II) includes certain weak points, but on the whole it is well balanced and has the political advantage of offering a solid basis for the development of relations between the two great powers. The author refutes the argument of those in the United States who are hostile to the treaty and then places the arms control philosophy in its proper context, that of a combined control of crises which loom up in the world. Without denying a decrease in USA power during the last ten years, he finds its deep-rooted causes in American society's incapacity to understand the nature of both economic and political c...
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