§ Mr. Cryerasked the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will state the source of the classification of the Polaris nuclear missiles as "strategic", and list those Governments who have been consulted about such classification and those who accepted it.
§ Mr. BlakerPolaris missiles are "strategic" because they are systems of the type treated as such in SALT I and SALT II. Our allies accept this classification, and so does the Soviet Union through its unilateral statement in SALT I which acknowledged that the modern ballistic missile submarines possessed by the NATO allies of the United States were of the same type of strategic systems covered by the agreement.