Word: 1990s
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...recommendation a "desirable evolution to ward small, single warhead ICBMs" it may have been MX that ensured the White House would take Midgetman and the other points seriously. But the giant ICBM will dominate the years between now and any deployment of a smaller weapon probably in the mid 1990s...
...Soviet Union, by agreeing to count warheads, trying to prevent modernization of the independent British and French nuclear forces? By the early 1990s, Britain plans to replace its 64 Polaris missiles with 32 U.S.-built Trident submarine-launched ballistic missiles with eight to ten independently targetable re-entry warheads each. The French, similarly, are in the process of replacing their 98 single-warhead missiles with weapons that can carry up to six warheads...
...report argued that the highly accurate, nearly 100-ton MX, with ten warheads, is needed immediately to "remove the Soviet advantage in ICBM [intercontinental ballistic missile] capability" and goad Russia into serious arms-reduction negotiations. For the 1990s, however, the so-called Midgetman missile must be developed because, with one warhead to the MX's ten, it would make a less tempting target to the Soviets...
...that the same avionics could be put aboard B-52s at a small cost. In sum, whatever edge the B-1B might have over the B-52 would be purchased at an exorbitant cost for a few years between 1985, when large-scale deliveries would begin, and the early 1990s, when an all-new Stealth bomber could be available...
Mondale's probable response to these charges--that by the 1990s we won't need trade barriers anymore because the auto industry will have become competitive is unfounded and overly optimistic. First of all, there is no guarantee that other countries will be willing to reopen free trade just because we are ready to compete. And without the rigors of a competitive atmosphere, American industrialists will probably fail to construct Mondale's nifty, new auto industry. Japan's "unfairness" in this sector consists mainly in being able to build better and cheaper cars than we can. Part of the problem...