the first to point out its danger to europe was chancellor helmud schmidt.cow and washington were just negotiating strategic weapons, which resulted in the salt ii treaty. although he wasn't ratified by the united states due to the war in afghanistan, its provisions were still respected. helmud schmidt drew attention to the fact that pioneer missiles remained outside the brackets of these agreements. counted. the united states with guarantees to europe, while the carter administration strives for détente, so in december 79, at the nato summit in brussels ... a so-called double decision was made: firstly, pershiing-1 missiles were replaced by pershiing-2 ballistic missiles, although from -due to their limited range , tamohawk cruise missiles were also deployed in europe. they had speed lower, but they could definitely reach the territory of the ussr. the second part of the decision was that nato offered the ussr bilateral negotiations on medium-range missiles, but the carter administration still... hesitated and was in no hurry to make a decision, just at tha