Zero solution

The zero solution is a term that arose in the early 1980s in connection with the retrofitting debate .

In the international retrofitting debate, the term “zero solution” was used for the complete waiver of the installation of additional, new weapon systems on both sides of the border of the Iron Curtain .

On November 18, 1981, US President Ronald Reagan submitted to the Soviet Union the proposal of a mutual zero solution for land-based medium-range missiles, which provided for the US to abandon the deployment of Pershing II missiles and land-based cruise missiles worldwide and, in return, for the Soviet Union to scrap them all SS-20 missiles and the decommissioning of the older SS-4 and SS-5 missiles.

In the INF treaty between the USA and the USSR, the so-called "double zero solution" stipulated the destruction and prohibition of the restoration of certain weapon systems.

In West Germany was "zero option" in 1981, under the then valid spelling as "zero solution" by the German Language Society for Word of the Year nominated.

See also

• Zero variant

Web links

Wiktionary: zero solution  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Helmut Schmidt : Zero solution: in the German interest . In: Die Zeit online from May 8, 1987, accessed on December 9, 2016.
• Zero solution, the one in the digital dictionary of the German language with usage examples, accessed on December 9, 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Word of the year on the website of the Society for German Language eV, accessed on December 9, 2016.