Washington works out an arms-control agreement—with itself
After months of arduous negotiations, an agreement on Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) was finally reached. All the parties involved at last accepted a radical new "double build-down" plan that would reduce the total destructive capabilities of the Soviet and American strategic arsenals as well as cut the number of warheads on each side's long-range missiles. Amid the fanfare and self-congratulations at the Rose Garden ceremony marking the agreement, it was easy to forget that the tough bargaining had taken place entirely within Washington, and that...