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...stressed that the proposed freeze would be worldwide, not just in Europe, and that overall the U.S. has 9,000 warheads, vs. only 7,000 for the Soviet Union. (The London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, whose estimates are given wide credence by nuclear experts, places the Soviet arsenal at 8,000 warheads. The Soviet weapons, moreover, far outstrip their U.S. counterparts in megaton force...
...Navy, the Administration's shopping list calls for more than 3,900 jet fighters, bombers and transport aircraft, 8,880 tanks and cannon-carrying troop transports and, during the next decade, some 14,000 strategic and tactical bombs and missiles for the nation's nuclear arsenal...
...average of 15 Ibs. of the silver-white, highly toxic metal needed for each warhead, the Reagan plan will require upwards of 130 tons of weapons-grade plutonium to build the 17,000 or so new warheads that defense specialists estimate will be added to the U.S. nuclear arsenal by the mid-1990s. But according to congressional testimony earlier this year by F. Charles Gilbert, an Energy Department nuclear expert, the lack not only of plutonium but also of tritium, an associated radioactive gas, threatens eventually to present "a serious problem...
...manufacture and assembly of nuclear weapons are bid out to private suppliers, as is the case with every other item in the U.S. defense arsenal. Final assembly takes place in a spread of low buildings, protected by guard dogs and a high cyclone fence, that range over several acres north of Amarillo, Texas. The heavily guarded facility is owned by the Department of Energy, but the day-to-day business of building warheads and bombs at the site is the responsibility of the little-known Kentucky-based engineering firm of Mason & Hanger-Silas Mason...
This is all too clear when we review the incredible overkill nuclear arsenal already in place. For example, the Soviet Union how has 20,000 nuclear bombs stockpiled, with 7,000 nuclear warheads aimed at the United States. At the same time the United States has 25,000-30,000 nuclear bombs stockpiled, with 10,000 aimed at the Soviet Union. And yet in spite of this amazing overkill stockpile, we are currently engaged in a massive escalation of the arms race. An example of this escalation is manafest in President Reagan's astronomical $1.5 trillion military spending plan...