Zero Option

The zero solution is a beginning of the 1980s in the context of the debate about the retrofitting concept incurred.

In the international lead rearmament debate you used the term " zero solution " for the complete abandonment of setting up additional, new weapons systems on both sides of the border of the Iron Curtain.

On 18 November 1981, U.S. President Ronald Reagan the Soviet Union submitted a proposal for a mutual zero solution for land-based medium-range missiles, which provided the United States the world's renunciation of the deployment of Pershing II missiles and land-based cruise missiles and in return from the Soviet Union, the scrapping of all SS - 20 missiles and decommissioning of the older called SS -4 and SS-5 missiles.

In the INF Treaty between the U.S. and the USSR, the destruction and the prohibition of recovery of certain weapons systems was defined in the so-called "double zero " solution.

In West Germany " zero option " in 1981, was appointed by the then valid spelling as " zero solution " word of the year.