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...year ago, when they tried to buy sophisticated U.S. equipment that tests the strength of concrete, claiming that they needed it to check out their bridges and apartment buildings. The Pentagon blocked the sale on the ground that the more likely use would be to test the hardening of ICBM silos...
...Representatives: remains high on the Pentagon's wish list, and President Reagan has vowed to "take his case to the country" to save it Reagan's concern stems from a frightening but increasingly popular story. The story runs as follows: By 1984, the Soviet Union will have built enough ICBMs to destroy, in one blow, all of America's land based missile force. The Soviets will seize this golden opportunity having labored for decades to achieve it) and launch the attack, targeting our land-based missiles but leaving cities intact. With the entire American ICBM force annihilated, the President will...
...Soviets are on the brink of acquiring a mobile ICBM right now. They were working on one, called the SS-16, until 1977, but were persuaded during SALT II to cancel that program. The SS-16 is a three-stage big brother of the two-stage SS-20 intermediate-range ballistic missile that has upset the military balance in Europe. Late last year, the old SS-16 test site at Plesetsk, near the White Sea in northwestern Russia, was the scene of fresh activity, suggesting that the program might be started up again on short notice...
...Mobile ICBMs are not a realistic option for the U.S., for reasons that became painfully clear to the Air Force as it tried vainly to find a movable home for the MX. Americans, and therefore their representatives in Congress, like to keep their deterrent out of sight and as much as possible out of mind. They do not like the idea of trucks rumbling along interstate highways with cargos bound for Armageddon. The Soviets, by contrast, in addition to having more wide-open spaces in which to shuttle their missiles about, need not worry about environmentalists, constituent-minded politicians...
...first outright violation of both SALT I and SALT II, which reads: "Each party undertakes not to start construction of additional fixed ICBM launchers." The MX is regarded here as a first-strike weapon because of its very big number of warheads, their accuracy and their power. If you build something of this kind when you already have 9,000 warheads that can cover all possible targets three or four times, then you must have something in mind. The most obscene thing about this weapon is that the Administration tries to depict it as a contribution to peace, to arms...