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...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...
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...
Curiously, the Senator wrongly stated last week that the heavy SS-18 missiles are the chief threat to the American Minuteman force. The U.S. land-based missiles actually are most endangered by the Soviets' more accurate SS-19s, which are smaller missiles that have six warheads apiece (to the SS-18's ten). The Soviets have deployed 200 SS-19s and are expected eventually to have 500 of them...
...contained a total of 180 underground silos, or launchers. One-third of the silos housed SS-19 rockets with multiple warheads; the other two-thirds housed older, less formidable SS-11s with single warheads. By satellite reconnaissance, the U.S. had kept careful count as the Soviets installed the SS-19s into one-third of the D-and-P silos. Nonetheless, officials in Washington?and particularly at the Pentagon? were worried about their future ability to distinguish MIRVed from unMlRVed rockets when mixed together as they were at D-and-P. The reason: except for a telltale domed antenna, the MIRVed...