Word: icbms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kistiakowsky's post-war research assisted the military in developing the Polaris submarine and various missiles, including the Atlas, Minuteman, and ICBM. "Until I actually became involved in the activities of the White House office, in 1957, I saw my role as that of a technician." Kistiakowsky became a full-time assistant to President Eisenhower in December 1'58. "These years were the eye-opener," he said. "I realized I'm no stupider than the policy makers. I realized how military policies are themselves stimulant to the arms race. The air of innocence with which our political leaders represented...
...details of the agreement can be hammered out until the SALT negotiations resume. The U.S. is willing to allow the ABM protection of Moscow to expand slightly; in return, it expects to retain some of the four Safeguard sites currently under way to protect American ICBM silos. Now in its initial stages, after barely gaining congressional approval, the ABM program can be modified to fit any possible agreement. Until an accord is reached, the U.S. intends to go ahead with additional ABM sites as well as with the deployment of MIRV, multiwarhead missiles designed to penetrate the Soviet Galosh...
Moreover, if an ABM-only treaty were signed, many U.S. experts believe, the Russians might never come back to the bargaining table. Having stripped U.S. ICBM sites of their ABM protection, the argument goes, the Russians would proceed full blast with deployment of the S59 and even bigger missiles. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird recently reported that an "apparently extensive" new Soviet ICBM construction program is already in progress in south-central Russia...
...effect, recognizes East Europe's Soviet-drawn borders and tacitly pays homage to Soviet hegemony in the eastern half of the Continent. Soviet military power has increased so dramatically that the Soviet fleet now rivals, and in some areas has practically neutralized, the U.S. Navy. The huge Soviet ICBM buildup has enabled the Russians to reach approximate parity with the U.S. and thus negotiate as equals in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, which last week began the fourth round in Vienna...
Warhead Cluster. Was there really a new Soviet ICBM to worry about? The White House said that Jackson was "very close" to right. The Pentagon confirmed that "we have detected some new ICBM construction in the Soviet Union-we are not sure exactly what it is or what the Soviet intentions are." Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the House Armed Services Committee that the Russians had initiated "a new ICBM-silo construction program -the silos are unlike any others they have previously constructed." One intelligence source claimed that the silos were bigger than...