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...effect, recognizes East Europe's Soviet-drawn borders and tacitly pays homage to Soviet hegemony in the eastern half of the Continent. Soviet military power has increased so dramatically that the Soviet fleet now rivals, and in some areas has practically neutralized, the U.S. Navy. The huge Soviet ICBM buildup has enabled the Russians to reach approximate parity with the U.S. and thus negotiate as equals in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, which last week began the fourth round in Vienna...
...news surfaced in a curious way. President Nixon noted in his massive foreign policy report to the Congress on Feb. 25 that the Russians had seemed to slow deployment of their largest known ICBM, the SS-9. One explanation for this was that it might "presage the deployment of an altogether new missile system." When top intelligence officials briefed the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy on Soviet missile plans that same week, no mention of an ominous new ICBM was made. But when the same officials briefed the Senate Armed Services Committee on March 4, Symington, who was present...
Warhead Cluster. Was there really a new Soviet ICBM to worry about? The White House said that Jackson was "very close" to right. The Pentagon confirmed that "we have detected some new ICBM construction in the Soviet Union-we are not sure exactly what it is or what the Soviet intentions are." Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the House Armed Services Committee that the Russians had initiated "a new ICBM-silo construction program -the silos are unlike any others they have previously constructed." One intelligence source claimed that the silos were bigger than...
...housing such experiments is automatically out of bounds to civilian craft. One goal of the program: the development of a laser that could destroy incoming enemy missiles. Traveling at the speed of light (186,000 miles per second), a laser beam could, in theory, intercept a 17,000-m.p.h. ICBM as it was re-entering the atmosphere and sear it into an ineffective hulk while it was still hundreds of miles from its target...
Peking has earnestly courted Tanzania, which may be called upon to provide sites for Chinese range-monitoring stations and a base for a Chinese missile-recovery ship. But where are the ICBMs? The delay may be rooted in difficulties with ICBM technology, or in building ICBM launch pads at Shuangchengtzu, the high (4,000 ft.), sandy plain near the Mongolian border that remains China's main missile-test complex. Then again, the Chinese may have decided simply to stick with their relatively cheap MRBMs, which can hit cities like Vladivostok and Irkutsk, and thus would be sufficient to make...