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This is well illustrated by President Reagan's Eureka College speech of May 9, 1982, which contains the basic American proposal for the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START). It was an advance over an uncontrolled arms race because it set a ceiling. It was an advance over SALT in relating the ceiling to warheads rather than launchers. And it stressed significant mutual reductions of strategic forces. It was a brave first attempt that unfortunately did not solve the root issue of multiple warheads. Even were the Soviets to accept our proposal, the Eureka scheme would-at best maintain...
Under SALT n about 5,000 Soviet land-based warheads would be aimed at 1,054 American launchers-a ratio of less than 5 to 1. The Eureka proposal would reduce the permitted warheads to 2,500 on at most 400 launchers. Even were it technically feasible to distribute warheads in this manner (and the Soviets would have to redesign their entire strategic force to do so), this would give the side striking first an advantage in warheads to targets of better than 6 to 1. And at these lower numbers of launchers an attack would be far more calculable...
That opening proposal, initially sketched by President Reagan in a speech last May at Eureka College, his Illinois alma mater, reflected two strongly held Administration convictions: first, that the Soviet Union had moved dangerously ahead in the nuclear arms race; second, that any START agreement must consequently cut existing Soviet forces, particularly land-based, intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), while leaving the U.S. free to catch up by adding to its own arsenal...
...throw weight," the cumulative power to hurtle megatons of destruction at targets thousands of miles away in a matter of minutes. Because they have invested so heavily in large land-based ballistic missiles, the Soviets have a 3-to-1 advantage over the U.S. in throw weight. In his Eureka speech, Reagan said that in some undefined second phase of the START talks he would seek to eliminate that disparity. Those experts inside and outside the Administration who want the U.S. START proposal to become more negotiable were hoping that Reagan's second-phase requirement for limiting throw weight...
...American dream. Harvard, Yale Law and Michigan are there, and the senior service academies. But a fellow from Southwest Texas State Teachers can grow up to be President (and boast of the Ivy Leaguers working for him). So can a young man from Whittier, or from, perfect name, Eureka. Truman held no degree but had studied law at night school in Kansas City...