SFO-VI GUIDANCE-002: ADDITIONAL GUIDANCE ON MOBILE

S E C R E T STATE 108618

SIPDIS, GENEVA FOR JCIC

E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/20/2019
TAGS: KACT KTIA PARM START JCIC US RS
SUBJECT: SFO-VI GUIDANCE-002: ADDITIONAL GUIDANCE ON MOBILE
ICBMS AND THEIR LAUNCHERS

REF: STATE 98566 (SFO-V GUIDANCE-004)

Classified By: Karin L. Look, Acting Assistant Secretary, VCI.
Reasons: 1.4(b) and (d).


1. (S) Additional Guidance on Mobile ICBMS and their
launchers: In addition to the approach provided in Ref A
guidance, Delegation is authorized to table the following
additional elements of a U.S. approach to monitoring of
mobile missiles in the SFO treaty:

-- Elimination Procedures: Delegation is authorized to
agree to the following:

-- Mobile ICBMs may be eliminated by eliminating all three
stages using destructive procedures that preclude their
use as the stage of a missile.

-- Mobile ICBM launch canisters would have to be
eliminated by using either of the procedures provided for
below:

(a) The launch canister shall remain indefinitely in
the open and visible to national technical means of
verification at the elimination facility; or

(b) The body of the launch canister shall be crushed,
flattened, cut into two equal pieces at a location that is
not an assembly joint or destroyed by explosion.

-- Mobile ICBM launchers would be eliminated by: cutting
off the end 0.78 meters of the launcher; cutting off the
mountings for the stabilizing jacks; and cutting off the
mounting for the erector launcher mechanism. Once cut,
the remaining launcher chassis could be used for purposes
not inconsistent with the treaty.

-- The other party would have the right to observe the
final elimination procedure for all three stages of a
mobile ICBM, a mobile ICBM launch canister, and a mobile
ICBM launcher to confirm that the elimination procedures
have been completed.

-- In addition, Delegation should add to the U.S.-proposed
text on eliminations a provision that the elimination
process for non-mobile ICBMs and all SLBMs shall render
them inoperable, precluding their use for their original
purpose, using procedures determined at the discretion of
the possessing Party.

-- Unique Identifiers: Delegation is authorized to
propose that, in addition to the requirement to exchange
unique identifiers for mobile ICBMs, the United States
could agree, as a matter of reciprocity, to a requirement
to exchange unique identifiers (which would be the
existing aircraft tail numbers) for heavy bombers.
Specifically, aircraft tail numbers could be provided as
part of the MOU data for each heavy bomber base, and could
be included in the movement notifications for deployed
heavy bombers.

End Guidance.
CLINTON