ABSTRACT
Talks between the Soviet Union and the United States on limitation of nuclear armaments, which began in the late 1960s and may continue in the 1980s, essentially revolve around the correlation of nuclear forces. Active targets are primarily the nuclear means and the most important means which insure the effective application of nuclear weapons. The development of modern carriers of nuclear weapons, especially of ballistic missiles, has led to a sharp improvement in the combat readiness primarily of the strategic nuclear forces, as a consequence of which the struggle against them at the time of launching becomes even more difficult. Having a mathematical model of combat actions which takes into account to a sufficient degree both quantitative and qualitative factors, it is possible to determine the correlation of forces as a relationship of the combat capabilities of the groupings of armed forces of the sides.
