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as i watcnea yesterday s signing, I could not help recalling a similar ceremony 15 years ago in Moscow for the Incidents at Sea Agreement. As the Secretary of the Navy, I negotiated and was chief signatory for that agreement which in several ways was used as a model, a precedent, for this agreement.
The Incidents at Sea Agreement has proven extremely successful in preventing, or resolving, disputes between the U.S. and Soviet navies. With the Soviet navy operating throughout the world, often in proximity to our surface and air naval units, it was imperative to establish some professional standards to be followed and a procedure to resolve incidents of misunderstanding. This agreement has worked well for 15 years and each year senior officers of both navies meet in either Washington or Moscow to review it. In the history of the agreement, there has never been a significant accident between operating units of our two navies.
It’s my hope that nuclear risk reduction centers will provide an equally important means of exchanging critical information, thereby lessening tensions and avoiding unintentional military confrontation between the1 superpowers.
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