ABSTRACT
In preparing for Secretary Shultz's January meeting with Foreign Minister Gromyko, we developed a strategic concept encompassing our view of how we would like to see the US-Soviet strategic relationship evolve in the future. During the next 10 years, the US objective is a radical reduction in the power of existing and planned offensive nuclear arms, as well as the stabilization of the relationship between offensive and defensive nuclear arms, whether on earth or in space. The global elimination of nuclear weapons would be accompanied by widespread deployments of effective non-nuclear defenses. The Soviets insist on the "nonmilitarization" of space; by that, they mean a ban on all arms in space that are designed to attack objects in space or on earth and all systems on earth that are designed to attack objects in space.
