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...NATO military members formed a new high council to study a whole new defense system: the Defense Planning Committee. They also set up the new seven-nation Nuclear Planning Group, of which West Germany is a key member. The group's mission will be to select targets, deploy NATO's 7,000 warhead nuclear force, and recommend when, if ever, to fire in anger. But the ownership of the weapons and final decision to fire remain with the U.S. The hope is that the new committee will satisfy the West German demand for full-fledged treatment in NATO...
...about whether the U.S. should go ahead full steam with an anti-missile missile system of its own. More than $2 billion has already been spent to develop such a system built around the Nike-X missile, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff are unanimous in favoring its full deployment. Secretary McNamara, on the other hand, has steadfastly balked at the more than $30 billion that the antiballistic missile system would cost. He has claimed in the past that the program would not be effective without a shelter program to accompany it, and that, in any case, every $5 billion...
...potential demonstrators long before they become uncivilly disobedient. "I can call up any one of them," says C.D. Lieut. George Fencl, "and they tell me just what they are planning. More often than not, they call me." As a result, the police department knows precisely what size force to deploy without wasting men. Sometimes an entire demonstration requires only two C.D. men (invariably a white-Negro team); alert to changing moods, the team can summon help quickly if things start to turn ugly...
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara acknowledged that "we must assume they will deploy an effective system," even though U.S. missiles and bombers will still be able to penetrate Russian defenses. To enhance the U.S. retaliatory capability, McNamara has recommended production and deployment of the Poseidon missile-a king-size, submarine-fired weapon armed with a bigger brain and decoys with which it can filter through an anti-ballistic defense. The Pentagon has also ordered a special nine-month study of whether the U.S. should build an even bigger super-rocket, tentatively designated the ICM (for Increased Capability Missile...
...anti-missile missile, Nike-X, in which more than $2.4 billion has been invested in research, McNamara said only that there has been no decision to deploy it. Privately, he is opposed to Nike-X's deployment. For one thing, there is Nike's cost-a minimum of $30 billion; moreover, McNamara says, even if Nike-X is installed, the Russians could overwhelm it with an expenditure of only $5 billion in additional offensive power. He remains convinced that as long as the U.S. maintains its retaliatory capability, a nuclear exchange is highly unlikely...