Word: icbms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
...matter what the scenario. A flexible weapon, it is equally effective on hard (silo) or soft (city) targets and useful in either strategic or tactical war. Accurate up to a few feet, the cruise zig zags to avoid defenses and subsequently can penetrate USSR airspace as successfully as ICBM...