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...1960s we had irrefutable evidence that the Soviets were deploying an antiballistic-missile system around Moscow--a system to defend their capital against our long-range missiles. We made the reasonable--but perhaps incorrect--assumption that they would deploy the system across the entire Soviet Union. Why would anyone put a system around one city and nowhere else? Were a nationwide Soviet ABM system to be put in place, it would require that we make major changes in our force levels...
...Congress believed that the proper response to a full-fledged Soviet antiballistic-missile network was for the U.S. to deploy its own countrywide ABM system. The Army had been working on such systems since the late 1950s, first the Nike-Zeus and later the Nike-X. In 1966, therefore, the Congress authorized and appropriated $167.9 million for production of a Nike system (when fully deployed, the weapons would probably have cost a total of $30 billion). President Johnson and I believed the system would provide little if any protection either to our population or our weapons. We refused to spend...
...that point I said to the President, "The Chiefs' recommendation is wrong; it's absolutely wrong. The proper response to a Soviet ABM system is not the deployment of an admittedly 'leaky' U.S. defense. The proper response is action that will ensure that we maintain our deterrent capability in the face of the Soviet defense. What the Chiefs are recommending has nothing to do with maintaining that deterrent. If our deterrent force--our offensive missiles and bombers--was of the proper size before the Soviets deployed their defenses, it must now be expanded to ensure that the same number...
...very dangerous step--if the Soviets followed our lead, as we must assume they would, it would lead to a dramatic increase in the offensive forces of each side. We therefore concluded that we would proceed with the development of MIRVs, but we would make no decision to deploy them until we had explored fully the possibilities of negotiating an agreement to prohibit defenses. If such a treaty was negotiated, the MIRV program would be scrapped...