Yes. You both win. And I, too, was only about 11 (or thereabouts) when I first read about it. It made my head spin. But I didn't figure out for many years that it was a ploy by the Soviets to tie our hands while they caught up with us. RWR stopped that nonsense by smashing them financially and technologically. :O) fsf
He was as succinct about SALT as he was about the wall, and drove the elites just as nuts. He simply said, "Trust, but VERIFY".