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...plan did not appeal to Moscow on several counts. To begin with, it proposed a special limit on the Soviet S59 rocket, a 25-megaton monster (v. five megatons for the largest American ICBM). In addition, the U.S. plan did not include Europe-based U.S. and NATO bombers or Sixth Fleet aircraft, though they are capable of striking targets within the Soviet Union...
...were not for the war. God knows we didn't want to go. We turned around, though, with PearlHarbor which in my mind was completely brought about by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who needed an excuse to declare war. This group today needs a catalyst. If a Chinese ICBM landed in California that would make people realize that Nixon's handling of Vietnam is not that...
Addis Attaché. Proxmire's case is strongest when most specific. Among other examples, he cites a $4 billion cost overrun for the Minuteman II ICBM; a quadrupling of the original estimated price for the nuclear carrier Nimitz; hundreds of millions misspent on the bug-infested Sheridan and MBT-70 tanks; the $2 billion jump-to more than $5 billion-in the cost of C-5A Galaxy cargo planes...
China's scientific community is also recovering from the dislocations of the Cultural Revolution. In the wake of China's first satellite launching, experts concluded that Peking may be closer to the iCBM stage than anybody had suspected. Pentagon officials estimate that the Chinese may well be able to test an intercontinental missile within a few months...
...launching two weeks ago only confirmed Western estimates of China's approaching capability to build and use ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles). The Defense Department had previously speculated that China would have 80 to 100 IRBMs (intermediate range missiles) by the mid-1970s; the first ones, with a range of 1,000 miles, were expected to be deployed some time this year. Studying data about the satellite, some Western scientists believe that it was lofted into orbit by a booster, probably equivalent to the U.S.'s Scout or Redstone rocket. Such a system would also provide enough power...