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...MIRVs, the acronym for multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles. By enabling several weapons to be fired from a single launcher, MlRVing has led to the rapid expansion of atomic arsenals even though the number of launchers was frozen by SALT I. The 1,320 subceiling covers not only land-based launchers and submarine tubes, but also long-range bombers fitted to carry cruise missiles, the highly accurate drones that the U.S. is still testing...
Some types of MlRVs face special restrictions. For example, MlRVed ICBMs and submarine-launched missiles together cannot exceed 1,200. And under that ceiling, MlRVed ICBMs are limited to 820. The reason for this stricter limit is that the land-based ICBMs, by combining enormous thrust with deadly accuracy, pose an especially great threat to the U.S.-Soviet balance. Neither side, moreover, can test or deploy an ICBM armed with more than ten MIRVs or a submarine-launched missile with more than 14 MIRVs. To prevent several missiles from being fired from the same launcher, the treaty forbids testing...
...addition to limiting the numbers of strategic arms, SALT II places restrictions on missile size. Both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. are prohibited from developing new land-based ICBMS larger than the Soviet SS-19. Since only the Soviets already have larger rockets (mainly the SS-18), and they will be allowed to keep them, the new limit in effect confirms Moscow's monopoly of giant missiles. But the U.S.S.R. cannot add to the 308 huge launchers now deployed...
...view the Israeli army should still be responsible for the security and public order of the West Bank and Gaza. Jews should be free to settle on the West Bank, and should be immune from rulings of the elected Palestinian administrative council. Israel would retain full control over state land, military areas,Jewish settlements and water resources...
...quality of U.S. nuclear weapons. Having already boosted the original military expenditure proposal in this year's federal budget, and having obtained the resignation of Paul Warnke as head of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the Carter Administration talks of building the MX missile, a mobile, land-based missile that would be shuttled from launching site to launching site, thereby frustrating Soviet efforts to locate American missiles. If the MX is approved, SALT II will, paradoxically, have pushed the arms race to an even more dangerous level...