A Siop for Perestroika?

The evolving strategic relationship between the US and the Soviet Union appears to offer an unprecedented opportunity for both nations to develop nuclear weapons development and deployment policies based on a shared security commitment to deterrent stability and risk reduction, rather than on the latent insecurities that characterized cold war defense policy. Given that the United States has apparently arrived at a culminating point in its competition with the Soviet Union, a new deterrent construct is urgently required if we are to realize the gains possible in current global events.