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Coupled with its $1.6 trillion, five-year defense budget and its plan to push ahead with the MX, cruise missiles, the Trident II submarine program, the B-l and Stealth bombers, the Reagan START proposal in effect offers the Soviets a choice: accept a bilateral deal requiring a cutback on the weapons that may have made the U.S. vulnerable to a first strike, or the U.S. will redress the balance unilaterally by deploying an array of new weapons. In other words, make sacrifices now or face a greatly increased American threat later...
...Better B-l Bomber...
Your article "Fat on the Sacred Cow" [Feb. 22] said the B-l bomber will be an integral part of America's strategic deterrent only until it is replaced by the Stealth Advanced Technology Bomber (ATB). In fact, there are no plans to replace the B-l with the ATB. Instead, the Bl, ATB and large numbers of cruise missiles will all be used together...
...B-l will not be "virtually obsolete by the end of the decade because of improved Soviet air defenses." We have recently made some very significant breakthroughs in electronic countermeasures. When these are combined with B-l design changes, we will have a plane that will do far better than even the most optimistic projections. This aircraft will be able to penetrate Soviet defenses well into the next decade, and can carry cruise missiles. Overall, the improvements are so dramatic that we now call it the B-1B instead...
...would make them vulnerable to a Soviet strike. The committee made $1.1 billion more in cuts before sending the fiscal 1983 weapons budget of $180.2 billion to the Senate floor. There it may face even rougher treatment as critics attempt to cut $11.3 billion in funds slated for the B-l strategic bomber and two nuclear aircraft carriers. The budget trimmers got some moral support from Gerald Ford, who said last week that it was "hogwash" to think that U.S. security would be endangered by a slowdown in weapons procurement. Said he: "The Soviet Union isn't going...