ABSTRACT

Strategic nuclear weapons are deployed on intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, and strategic bombers. Strategic bombers carry free-fall nuclear bombs and air-to-ground missiles armed with nuclear warheads. During the course of the negotiations two tentative agreements were discussed by the chief United States and Soviet negotiators, Nitze and Kvit sinsky, but never ratified by either government. The first tentative proposal was drafted on July 16,1982, following an informal discussion between Nitze and Kvitsinsky during a "walk in the woods" in the Jura Mountains near Geneva. The United States (US) deploys tactical nuclear weapons in Western Europe, South Korea and the US, and with the Atlantic and Pacific fleets. The Soviet Union deploys its tactical nuclear weapons in Eastern Europe, in its own Western territories, and east of the Urals, as well as with its fleets.