The Cruise Missile and the Strategic Balance

The phenomenal growth of Soviet military power over the past two decades and concurrent perceptions of a decline in the ability of the United States to exercise the degree of influence on world events it did during the immediate postwar era have generated concerns over the worldwide balance of power. The continued qualitative improvements in Soviet ICBM forces, coupled with the quantitative edge offered the USSR through SALT I, seem to presage an imminent increase in the vulnerability of current generation US Ballistic missile and bomber forces and threaten to undermine the basis upon which US- USSR strategic stability has come to rest

Aeronautics · Balance (ability) · Cruise missile · Missile · Missile Defense · Political science · Aerospace Engineering · Defense, Military, and Policy Studies · Engineering · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies · Military and Defense Studies · Psychology