Ralph L. Dietl
Equal Security
Europe and the SALT Process, 1969–1976
Historische Mitteilungen – Beiheft 85
Superpower détente during the Nixon-Ford Administration led to
the formation of an East-West regime aimed at conflict control and
systemic stability. ‘Equal Security’ was the proclaimed goal. By institutionalizing bipolarity, however, the bilateral US-SU Strategic Arms
Limitation Talks actually threatened Western European security, for
global security and Alliance security were ultimately incompatible.
NATO Europe feared the emergence of a global directorate of the
superpowers and became apprehensive that the US would be ready
to abandon the cause of Europe and sacrifice European and German
unity for the sake of a stable world order. In reaction, NATO Europe
sought to shape the SALT process to ensure that equal security applied
to all – the Soviet Union, the United States and the European Allies.
The volume analyses the linkages between SALT, MBFR, NATO and
the special Anglo-American nuclear relationship. It also explores how
NATO Europe penetrated US decision-making and co-shaped the US
SALT agenda and how Scoop Jackson Democrats and NATO Europe
aligned to preserve Western block superiority, freezing the SALT II
Ralph L. Dietl
Equal Security
Europe and the SALT Process, 1969–1976
2013.
251 pages.
Softcover.
¤ 49,–
ISBN 978-3-515-10453-1
process. Based on recently declassified European archival material,
the volume offers a fresh interpretation of and a ‘new look’ at SALT.
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Contents
SALT I and European Security, 1969–1972: Strategic Arms Limitation
Talks: The Prehistory | The Nixon Administration, Europe and
Nuclear Arms Control | NATO, Europe and the Preparation for the
Preliminary SAL Talks | ‘Preliminary Talks’ and the Definition of
Strategic Weapons | A Limited First Agreement | The US Modified
Approach: The Struggle for Adoption | The May 20 Joint Declaration:
The Common Platform | The Path to Moscow: Europe and SALT I p
Europe, SALT II & the Vladivostok Agenda in the Era Nixon-Ford,
1972–1976: From SALT I to SALT II: The Congressional Approval | A
New Beginning: The Preparation of the Geneva Talks | Beyond the
Preliminary Talks: The Matrix for Strategic Arms Control | SALT and
the ‘Year of Europe’, 1973 | SALT and the Agreement to Prevent
Nuclear War | SALT II and MBFR | Towards the Moscow Summit, June
1974| President Ford and the Avenue to Vladivostok | Vladivostok: The
SALT II Agreement Illusion | NATO, MBFR and US Nuclear Weapons
in Europe | The SALT Track: Cruise Missiles, Backfire and NATO
Europe | SALT II: The Last Stand of the Ford Administration
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