The Soviets have been put on notice that the United States is not serious about its current proposal in the StrategicArmsReductionTalks which calls for a complete ban on such missiles.
Curiously, Admiral Crowe implicitly acknowledges that such an agreement is not inherently in the U.S. interest by rationalizing the coupling of American concessions in this area with "major" Soviet concessions in the StrategicArmsReductionTalks.
He was also instrumental in a second track of talks that led to the 1991 StrategicArmsReduction Treaty, or Start, that called for deep cuts in the number of long-range weapons deployed by each side in the Cold War.