Word: icbm
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...critical area, the proposal tabled by the Soviets last week goes a long way toward meeting U.S. demands. It would significantly reduce the total number of warheads on intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), which have always formed the backbone of the Soviet Union's offensive capacity. The Soviets now have 6,400 such warheads, while the U.S. has 2,125. Moscow's new formula, TIME Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott learned, would allow each of the superpowers no more than 3,600 ICBM warheads. More specifically, the Soviet proposal would limit what Moscow calls "nuclear charges" (bombs, cruise missiles and ballistic...
...Reagan Administration about how it should "deal us yet another propaganda blow, say, by suspending the development of one of your new strategic missiles. And we would respond with the same kind of 'propaganda.' " Is that a veiled offer to scrap the U.S.S.R.'s threatening new multiple-warhead ICBM, the SS-24, in exchange for cancellation of the American...
...superpowers are observing even though it was never ratified by the Senate, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. are allowed to deploy one new missile system each. Moscow claims the SS-X-24 as its entry, Washington the MX. The Soviets, who now have six types of missiles in their ICBM arsenal, insist that the SS-X-25 is merely an updated version of the SS-13 and thus does not qualify as a new weapon or as a SALT violation. The Reagan Administration has disputed that point several times. In any case, said Secretary of State Shultz last week...
...after Reagan suggested vaguely, during his speech in September to the U.N. General Assembly, that new arms talks might take place under an "umbrella," implying a unified forum without separate negotiations for medium-range missiles and long-range missiles. The START talks had concerned the warheads, mostly loaded on ICBMS, that the U.S. and the Soviet Union have pointed at each other from their respective territories and from submarines. The INF talks focused exclusively on missiles based in Europe and aimed at European targets. Umbrella talks could treat those different weapons as parts of a single negotiating equation, together with...
...plans to deploy intermediate-range missiles in Europe. Had the Soviets been willing to remove Euromissiles from the agenda of START and deal only with intercontinental weapons, their position might have led to an accept able compromise. The result could have been significant though not drastic reductions in their ICBM forces in exchange for limitations on American air-and sea-launched cruise missiles...