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...growing doubts about whether delinkage and the zero option would necessarily be an unmitigated blessing. A veteran intelligence official cast a pall over an interagency meeting in February by administering what he called a "heavy dose of reality therapy." Consider, he said, the danger posed by a new Soviet ICBM -- the SS-25, a mobile, three- stage, intercontinental version of the two-stage, intermediate-range SS-20. "Not a single one of the SS-20s that Gorbachev will be giving up can hit the U.S., and not a single SS-25 is affected by an INF treaty. So there...
...theater nuclear forces, as well as in conventional land, sea, and air forces that go far beyond any legitimate defense needs. The Soviet military already is beginning deployment of newer and more dangerous weapon systems: the Delta IV missile submarine, the Blackjack supersonic bomber, and the SS-25 mobile ICBM. Even if Gorbachev is sincere about his desire to devote resources spent on the military sector to the civilian economy, he has not been able to control or convince his military...
...related systems will be evaluated: three are intended to track and monitor Soviet ICBM launches, two would fire interceptors to destroy the attacking missiles, and one is a "battle-management" computer for coordinating the entire space- and ground-based program. Using computer simulation, test models and flight testing, the Pentagon will try to determine how well the elements of these systems will work...
...emptive attack, and lasers capable of igniting fires at a distance of 100 kilometers (some 62 miles) or more must be extremely powerful and are not very reliable. But the main argument advanced in favor of the package approach is the potential of SDI against reduced Soviet ICBM forces...
...from an Aqua-Lung regulator mimics the burst of a nuclear cloud, over which is set an umbrella; the hole in a frosted ring cake suggests a missile silo; a chillingly winsome little blond muffin sits precociously under a hair dryer, whose gleaming cone evokes the nose of an ICBM...