One could come away thinking that the treaty covers this case.
The second issue was whether the treaty should cover elected legislators or members of parliament.
Washington and its allies were willing to have seeds covered by the treaty.
The treaty covers only strategic weapons, those with ranges of more than 3,000 miles.
The United States has 859 missiles covered by the treaty.
But the United States failed to get its way on the question of whether a treaty should cover payments to political parties.
There are also many anti-tank mines in the zone, but they were never covered by the treaty.
Still, the radars are at sites covered by the treaty, with the same early warning function as before.
The treaty covers only delivery systems - missiles, launchers and the like.
Since the treaty covers only ground forces and equipment, the Soviets argued that these units would not be subject to limits.