Word: abm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LARGER FORCE OF ICBMs. Air Force leaders want additional missiles to reinforce the present Minuteman series and ensure penetration of the new Soviet ABM defenses being installed around Moscow. Foster argues that the U.S. still has several hundred more ICBMs than the Soviets and is improving its silos, the better to withstand any Soviet first strike...
...recent years, however, he has severed connections with all Government projects and thus is free to speak out on U.S. nuclear and weapons policies. Speak out he does. Last week at the University of Washington, Lapp not only criticized the U.S. decision to deploy a thin anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defense system, but also pointed out the damage the system could wreak on the very population it was intended to protect...
Calling the ABM move a political decision made to "deprive the Republicans of a defense issue," Lapp suggested that the U.S. should instead use its long-established deterrent policy to protect itself against possible ICBM attack by China in the 1970s. His proposal: a China Polaris patrol armed with high-yield nuclear weapons programmed to hit specific Chinese targets...
Spectacular Pancake. There were potential dangers, Lapp warned, in the U.S. ABM system, which will use Spartan missiles armed with one-megaton warheads to intercept incoming ICBMs high above the atmosphere and smaller, faster Sprint missiles to intercept in the atmosphere any missiles that evade the Spartans...
Past experience has often shown that once the technical barriers to some course of action are removed, it becomes too difficult to exercise effective political restraint. It may thus be only a matter of time before some new development in the ABM systems of either nation or further increases in nuclear strength forces both sides to place permanently circling nuclear warheads into space. That situation is precisely what the outer space treaty attempted to outlaw...