Word: 19s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...younger age divisions, squads were placed in categories by year of birth--ranging from 1975ers to "Under-19s". Although about half of these teams hailed from the Washington area, others travelled from as far away as Canada and Colorado to compete...
...Congressmen that in addition to the lifting of the 850 ceiling on launchers, a number of the other more unrealistic features of START were "flexible." This applied particularly to the 2,500 ceiling on ICBM warheads and the stipulated two-thirds reductions in SS-18s and SS-19s...
...ICBM force, 550 Minuteman IIIs, are classified as "light" ICBMs and have three warheads each, while the backbone of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces is made up of 308 "heavy" SS-18s, each able to carry ten warheads, and around 500 "medium" SS-17s and SS-19s, with four and six warheads respectively. The American MX, which is still under development as well as under heated debate, is about the size of the SS-19, but would have as many warheads as the SS-18. However, even if the controversial MX is eventually deployed, there will be many fewer...
Perle was able to use this document to regain ground that he had lost to the State Department. Unless the U.S. insisted on the elimination of the entire Soviet SS-18 force and many of the SS-19s and SS-17s as well, he argued, START would not achieve "our mandate from the President" on throw weight. As a compromise, the State Department agreed to "collateral restraints" on Soviet missiles that would cut the SS-18s and SS-19s by two-thirds and require elimination of the somewhat smaller SS-17s. The MX, however, would be virtually unconstrained...
Rowny, a retired Army general who was a negotiator-turned-opponent of the SALT II treaty, refuses to comment on previously unpublicized details of the U.S. position, such as the restrictions on SS-18s and SS-19s. But he defends the attempt to limit Soviet throw weight. "Warheads and throw weight go hand in hand," he said in an interview with TIME on the eve of his departure for Geneva. While calling his job "one of the toughest around," Rowny is convinced that for reasons of their own military self-interest, the Soviets may yet accept an agreement based...