Word: deployment
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...prohibit nuclear weapons in space may also be ratified shortly. But agreement on the thorniest issue-anti-ballistic missiles-is a remoter prospect, though talks on the subject are scheduled to begin in Moscow soon. In the meantime, Russia is thought to be going ahead with plans to deploy an ABM system. As for the U.S., the Senate Armed Services Committee last week recommended that a multibillion dollar American ABM system be set up unless Russia agrees to drop its plans...
...Deterrence by Anti-Missiles" [Feb. 24] left unsaid what must have been a central consideration in the Soviets' decision to deploy an operational ABM system. Soviet planners cannot have escaped the realization that our growing fleet of nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarines represents a challenge to their security entirely unmatched by their offensive or defensive arsenal. These submarines "on station" give the U.S. a guaranteed second-strike capability, a force in being that could reasonably be expected to survive the first blow and retaliate. I believe that the Soviets feel compelled to fashion some sort of "reply...
According to intelligence reports, Soviet Russia is even now beginning to deploy a defense system designed to protect its major cities against attack by intercontinental ballistic missiles. American military men want the U.S. to counter by installing a vast anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system of its own. The Administration hopes to avoid this and is attempting to persuade the Russians to enter an agreement under which neither the U.S. nor the Soviets would deploy ABMs; to that end, U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson is now holding talks with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin. In London two weeks ago, Kosygin made a press...
...system thus cannot really assure adequate protection, why should the Russians bother to deploy one? One possible answer is that their definition of "adequate" may be flexible. Conceivably, Russian strategists may argue that even if an ABM system could not keep out all U.S. missiles, it could keep out enough to give the nation a fighting chance to survive and rebuild. The other and more unsettling possibility is that Russian scientists are on to a better defense system than the U.S. so far contemplates. U.S. military planners remain haunted by the frightening possibility that the Russians have actually developed...
...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...