Word: icbms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Army effort known as "Homing Overlay Experiment," had good reason to hope for some insomnia in Moscow: his project scored its first success last week. A special interceptor rocket fired from Meek Island in the Kwajalein archipelago had struck the dummy warhead of a Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that had been launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California some 30 earlier. Military analyst described the collision, which pulverized both projectiles more than 100 miles above the earth's surface, as a major technological advance that would support President Reagan's controversial idea of developing strategic...
Would limit the increase in the defense budget to 4% to 5% a year. Would cancel the MX missile and B-1 bomber, replacing them with the mobile single-warhead ICBM and Stealth bomber. Would increase the readiness and mobility of conventional forces. Urges greater use of competitive contract bids by the Pentagon...
Supports a modified bilateral freeze on nuclear weapons, allowing some modernization. Wants to reduce those weapons that are most destabilizing, mainly multiple-warhead, land-based ICBMs. Would rely more on submarines and bombers and would develop a single-warhead mobile ICBM. Supports a modified build-down concept. Would seek ratification of SALT II. Urges the tightening of nonproliferation controls...
Full-scale deployment of antisatellite weapons could create a new, precarious trip wire to war. An ASAT attack on either country's military satellites, partially "blinding" the enemy to possible ICBM attack, might by itself prompt the blinded nation to launch nuclear missiles. Moreover, ASATS would in crease the risk that an electronic malfunction in either country's warning system could be mistaken for an enemy attack...
...when the laser, or its high-tech cousins, seems able to protect one superpower against an ICBM strike, the tenuous equation will be upset. Neither the U.S. nor the Soviets could afford to let the other side become invulnerable; such a concession would be virtual surrender. Reagan said last spring that the U.S., if it did have space-based missile defenses, would never abuse the shield by launching an offensive first strike. But, concedes Major General John Storrie, an Air Force space official, "we walk a very narrow line in these matters between strategic defense and offense." The Soviets cannot...