Word: abm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bargaining ABM for SALT...
...1970s and afterward. We in the Department of Defense, as all Americans, hope that as a result of negotiations in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks an equitable agreement can be reached to limit strategic arms. We, as well as our negotiating team, regard orderly progress on the Safeguard ABM program as a key to our negotiating position at those vital talks...
...Soviet strategic weapons deployment and a high level of weapons research. He spoke as the Senate entered another round of debate over military spending and deployment of an anti-ballistic missile system. Last week the U.S. also formally presented the Russians with a plan for mutual limitations on both ABM and offensive missile systems (TIME, July 20). Thus Foster described as "extremely important" the maintenance of the Pentagon's credibility with the Congress and the American people. He posed the matter to newsmen partially as "a challenge to you folks" and said, "I'd welcome any suggestions." TIME...
Back in the Bottle. Many American scientists feel that the horrors of MIRV are so great that the U.S. should make a determined effort to stuff ths MIRV genie back in the bottle. The system was conceived primarily as a countermeasure to the Soviet ABM. By multiplying the number of warheads, the reasoning went, the U.S. would be able to penetrate Russian defenses. In addition, MIRV was regarded as a hedge against the huge Soviet SS-9s, which have the punch to destroy Minutemen even in their hardened silos. Laird's critics make the persuasive point that...
...California (San Diego), a former ranking Pentagon official, suggests that no matter what happens at SALT, the U.S. should abandon its land-based missiles and settle for an undersea force of no more than 30 subs. York would also retain about 250 bombers, but he would abandon the ABM. One serious objection to York's plan is that the nation's defense would rest mainly on one weapons system and that if it were destroyed, the country would be virtually helpless. Yet 30 Poseidon subs equipped with MIRVed missiles, as proposed by York, could carry almost...