I'm lost here. President Reagan was against a freeze in the size of the respective nuclear arsenals because Russia's was so large at the time. He argued in this speech that to freeze at asuch a high level would be to Russia's advantage and would not meet our objective of a significant reduction in the size of the nuclear arsenals.

But what was agreed to this week wasn't a freeze. It was an agreed upon significant reduction in nuclear arsenals of both countries so that both would have the same number of nuclear weapons of the same types. Pretty much both countries guns would be filled with the same number of bullets, many fewer than they had before. That was pretty much what President Reagan was seeking, wasn't it?