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...could do the same thing. Tomorrow we could come out with our own program for deploying Soviet missiles near the U.S., say in the north somewhere, and then offer not to go ahead with that deployment if the U.S. would give up the MX [America's still undeployed ICBM]. That is fine as propaganda, perhaps. But there is already a balance offerees in Europe. We have our missiles and you have yours, on submarines and bombers, which can reach our territory...
...week by the President. It states that building modern missiles is a first priority. The right to produce the MX advanced systems will therefore not be bargained away. Said NSC Director William Clark last week, discussing the directive: "The President views the production of a modern intercontinental ballistic missile [ICBM] as absolutely essential...
...provision that would, if the agreement were formally in force, require them to reduce 450 of their older strategic weapons. The Joint Chiefs of Staff, who have supported the treaty, worry that if informal observance breaks down, the Soviets will be in a position to add to their ICBM forces much more quickly than the U.S. can take countermeasures...
...been revised several times a year ever since. In consultation with his advisers and with the help of computerized contingency plans, the President can strike against various combinations from among some 40,000 targets in the U.S.S.R., ranging from "hard" ones, such as the Soviets' underground ICBM silos and the Kremlin leaders' emergency bunkers...
Even if the U.S. missiles hit their targets accurately, an American "counterforce strike" directed solely against Soviet ICBM silos would nonetheless mean raining down some 2,000 warheads from one end of the U.S.S.R. to the other, including the most heavily populated and industrialized areas west of the Ural Mountains. It is doubtful that the Soviets would consider such a strike, which would leave from 4 million to 30 million dead, as a "limited" action requiring a "limited" response. In fact, Brezhnev has repeatedly warned that any use of nuclear weapons by the U.S. would lead to a no-holds...