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DIED. BERNARD SCHRIEVER, 94, German-born retired general who led the development of the U.S. Air Force's intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which could deliver a nuclear bomb from thousands of miles away; in Washington. Schriever, who also helped develop the Air Force's space program, streamlined its high-tech weaponry operations and oversaw the development of the Atlas, Titan, Thor and Minuteman missiles at the height of the cold war in the 1950s and '60s, when building the ICBM was the military's highest priority...
...report submitted to Congress, "has made verification and compliance the pacing elements of arms control today." According to the report, Moscow violated the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty by building a huge radar system in central Siberia, and the 1979 SALT accords limiting each side to one new ICBM by testing and deploying the SS-25 mobile missile. The Soviets argue that the radar station will be used for tracking satellites, not enemy missiles, and that the SS-25 is merely a modernized version of the old SS-12. Pentagon hardliners insist that the scope of Soviet cheating is greater...
...gun” and then find out afterwards that he only had a “rock,” Miller became exasperated. “Oh, if it was only a rock, Phil, for God’s sakes. The sword of Damocles is now an ICBM of Damocles, for God’s sakes...
...ICBM is the nearest thing to an "ultimate weapon," complete with delivery system, that has ever been conceived. From U.S.-controlled territory, it could reach any part of the world, wreck the biggest city by blast and heat. Then the radioactive byproducts, drifting with the wind, could turn an area the size of many nations into a silent wilderness...The missilemen are not happy, however. Both civilian and military, they know too well the potential effect on the earth of thermonuclear warfare. They fear that some small, irresponsible nation may get hold of a missile or two and blot...
...when the Bush administration is seeking to curb expenditures on important and necessary antiterrorism measures. The administration already has suggested cutting a program to safeguard Russian nuclear material because it is too expensive. Sept. 11 showed that the greatest threat facing the U.S. is not a warhead on an ICBM, but a “dirty bomb” on a truck or a biological weapon in a backpack—and the limited defense budget Bush has proposed would be better spent on immediate threats...