“…States by banning the testing of a fundamental new weapon system whose technology they had not yet mastered, but whose potential strategic significance for the Soviet Union was considerable. Additional support for the technological asymmetry hypothesis is the fact that, seven years after the start of SALT, when the Soviets had mastered MIRV technology and were deploying MIRVed missiles, they agreed in SALT II to a limit on offensive strategic launchers, including a sublimit on [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] MIRVed missile launchers at equal, though high, levels. The first arms limitation window, for prohibitions, had been missed.…”