The Soviet 'spy gaps'

Throughout the summer of 1985 an internal debate raged within the Reagan administration: Should the United States continue to adhere to the unratified SALT II treaty - an agreement that many people believe the Soviet Union has violated? At issue was the fate of two U.S. ballistic-missile submarines: a new Ohio-class vessel, the Alaska, capable of launching Trident missiles, and an older Poseidon-missile submarine, the USS Sam Rayburn.