Inactive Strategic Treaties
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING REGARDING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DATA BASE FOR THE TREATY BETWEEN THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ON THE ELIMINATION OF THEIR INTERMEDIATE-RANGE AND SHORTER-RANGE MISSILES
Pursuant to and in implementation of the Treaty Between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America on the Elimination of their Intermediate-Range and ShorterRange Missiles of December 8, 1987, hereinafter referred to as the Treaty, the Parties have exchanged data current as of November 1, 1987, on intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles and launchers of such missiles and support structures and support equipment associated with such missiles and launchers.
I. DEFINITIONS
For the purposes of this Memorandum of Understanding, the Treaty, the Protocol on Elimination and the Protocol on Inspection:
1. The term “missile production facility” means a facility for the assembly or production of solid-propellant intermediate-range or shorter-range GLBMs, or existing types of GLCMs.
2. The term “missile repair facility” means a facility at which repair or maintenance of intermediate-range or shorter-range missiles takes place other than inspection and maintenance conducted at a missile operating base.
3. The term “launcher production facility” means a facility for final assembly of launchers of intermediate-range or shorter-range missiles.
4. The term “laucher (sic) repair facility” means a facility at which repair or maintenance of launchers of intermediate-range or shorter-range missiles takes place other than inspection and maintenance conducted at a missile operating base.
5. The term “test range” means an area at which flight-testing of intermediate-range or shorter-range missiles takes place.
6. The term “training facility” means a facility, not at a missile operating base, at which personnel are trained in the use of intermediate-range or shorter-range missiles or launchers of such missiles and at which launchers of such missiles are located.
7. The term “missile storage facility” means a facility, not at a missile operating base, at which intermediate-range or shorter-range missiles or stages of such missiles are stored.
8. The term “launcher storage facility” means a facility, not at a missile operating base, at which launchers of intermediate-range or shorter-range missiles are stored.
9. The term “elimination facility” means a facility at which intermediate-range or shorter-range missiles, missile stages and launchers of such missiles or support equipment associated with such missiles or launchers are eliminated.
10. The term “support equipment” means unique vehicles and mobile or transportable equipment that support a deployed intermediate-range or shorter-range missile or a launcher of such a missile. Support equipment shall include full-scale inert training missiles, full-scale inert training missile stages, full-scale inert training launch canisters, and training launchers not capable of launching a missile. A listing of such support equipment associated with each existing type of missile, and launchers of such missiles, except for training equipment, is contained in Section VI of this Memorandum of Understanding.
11. The term “support structure” means a unique fixed structure used to support deployed intermediate-range missiles or launchers of such missiles. A listing of such support structures associated with each existing type of missile, and launchers of such missiles, except for training equipment, is contained in Section VI of this Memorandum of Understanding.
12. The term “research and development launch site” means a facility at which research and development booster systems are launched.
II. Total Numbers of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles and Launchers of Such Missiles Subject to the Treaty
[Section not included]
III. Intermediate-Range Missiles, Launchers of Such Missiles and Support Structures and Support Equipment Associated With Such Missiles and launchers
[Section not included]
IV. Shorter-Range Missiles, Launchers of Such Missiles and Support Equipment Associated With Such Missiles and Launchers
[Section not included]
V. Missile Systems Tested, But Not Deployed, Prior to Entry into Force of the Treaty
[Section not included]
VI. Technical Data
[Section not included]
VII. Research and Development Booster Systems
[Section not included]
Each Party, in signing this Memorandum of Understanding, acknowledges it is responsible for the accuracy of only its own data. Signature of this Memorandum of Understanding constitutes acceptance of the categories of data and inclusion of the data contained herein.
This Memorandum of Understanding is an integral part of the Treaty. It shall enter into force on the date of entry into force of the treaty and shall remain in force so long as the Treaty remains in force.
Done at Washington on December 8, 1987, in two copies, each in the English and Russian languages, both texts being equally authentic.
FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
Ronald Reagan
President of the United States of America
FOR THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS:
Mikhail Gorbachev
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU