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Essentially, the freeze is an interim effort to impose at least some restraint on the headlong Soviet expansion of ICBM forces. In recent years, while the U.S. concentrated on modifying existing missiles rather than building new ones, the Soviets have been adding more than 200 land-and 100 sea-based missiles to their capability every year. By now the Soviets have a 3-to-2 lead in ICBMS, and, under the terms of the freeze, they could have a 40% edge in missile-launching submarines; those margins make conservatives fret that the offensive-missile agreement could be more...
...lobbyists left Washington and the ICBM's remained in their silos, protest again subsided. As Nixon flew off to Moscow to consummate some nefarious deal with the Soviets, the fear students felt about nuclear confrontation following his speech turned to chagrin. The bombing of the North continued unabated, but the sense of urgency it had initially prompted swiftly dissipated as students again re-entered Lamont and Widener for a few feverish days before exams...
McGovern's savings in strategic nuclear weapons would come mainly from phasing out the less versatile liquid-fueled Titan ICBM and reducing the strategic bombing force-on the grounds that the U.S.S.R. is cutting back its bombers and the U.S. needs only enough of them to complicate Soviet defensive planning...
...lobbyists left Washington and the ICBM's remained in their silos, protest again subsided. As Nixon flew off to Moscow to consummate some nefarious deal with the Soviets, the fear students felt about nuclear confrontation following his speech turned to chagrin. The bombing of the North continued unabated, but the sense of urgency it had initially prompted swiftly dissipated as students again re-entered Lamont and Widener for a few feverish days before exams...
Freeze. The ABM treaty allows each nation one defensive installation at an ICBM site and one at its capital, with a maximum of 100 missiles at each location. Thus the U.S. will be able to complete its Safeguard ABM facility near Grand Forks, N. Dak., but must discontinue the other one it is building near Montana's Malmstrom Air Force Base. New appropriations would be required for an ABM array around Washington. The Soviet Union already has ABMs protecting Moscow; where it will place its second site is not known...