Nuclear Strategy and Nuclear Weapons.

Examines the proposal of the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon to improve the nation's nuclear counterforce capability against Russia and its implications for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. Rationale behind the proposal; Changes in U.S. strategic policy in the late 1950s and 1960s; Description of the triad of strategic offensive forces held by the U.S.; Categories of programs proposed in the 1975 U.S. defense budget.