Word: deployable
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...shall now proceed to the central question of the package approach. A seemingly serious argument is cited in defense of the package principle: imagine that the U.S.S.R. abandons the package and agrees to a substantial cut in strategic missiles, while the U.S. maintains its freedom to deploy SDI and at a certain point begins launching SDI components into space -- in the version proposed by Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, for example ((Weinberger eight weeks ago called for early deployment of a preliminary SDI, including some space-based components)). Weinberger's project envisions the development of a network of space stations...
...setting up the SDI project, President Reagan signed a directive requiring that the system be "cost effective at the margin." Translation: adding new defenses must be cheaper than it would cost the Soviets to deploy missiles to counter them. Critics charge that hastily embarking on a smart- rocks system is a way to evade this requirement. "Phased deployment is an effort to obfuscate the 'cost-effective' argument," says Spurgeon Keeny, president of the Arms Control Association. "Supporters will concede that Phase 1 isn't cost effective but will argue that the ultimate, undefined SDI system would be." With so little...
...maintain the strategic vision of his revolution, Deng will have to summon up all his reserves of political capital and tactical skills. At 82, will he have the time to deploy them...
...rush to deploy the B-1B, the Air Force went into production while the aircraft was still undergoing major design modifications. Even before the first bombers became operational last fall at Dyess Air Force Base in Texas, there were portents of trouble. The plane's fuel tanks, built directly into the wings without rubber bladders, leak jet fuel. Early flight tests revealed problems caused by loading cruise missile launchers and antiradiation pods onto the original airframe design. In gaining an extra 41 tons -- nearly a 25% increase -- without additional wing surface, the B-1B had acquired an extraordinary "wing loading...
...possibility cannot be ruled out that the prohibitive costs of building a defensive system might force the government to concentrate solely on the offensive aspects of SDI. In any case, if the U.S. were to deploy the Strategic Defense-Offense Initiative, we would have spent hundreds of billions of dollars--yet would have gone right back to where we started from. Back to mutually assured destruction, the MAD doctrine raised to the power of two. We would still be hostages of our own destructive technology...