Edward L. Rowny
Professor Eugene V. Rostow, Ambassador Edward L. Rowny, and Secretary of State Alexander
M. Haig, Jr., 1982.
Therefore I had a good rapport-an easy relationship-with Haig. When he
became the Secretary of State and I the chief negotiator of START, we developed
the plans for deep reductions of strategic arms to meet President Reagan's desires.
We also worked at trying to reduce the right things. Let me explain.
SALT II had limited launchers of ballistic missiles but not the warheads on them.
This was like limiting rifle tubes but not the bullets fired from the rifles. If you
don't limit the number of bullets, then you can shoot an unlimited number of them
from the rifle tubes. In SALT II we were determined to limit warheads as well as
missiles and launchers.
The process of developing our plan for START was going rather slowly, and for
this we were subjected to a great deal of criticism. One reason for going slow was
that we first wanted to determine the direction in which our strategic modernization
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