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...places a subceiling of 1,320 on those weapons regarded as the most destabilizing to the strategic balance (see chart following page). These mainly are the multiwarheads known as 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...
...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 of rapid reloading techniques or the storing of extra missiles near launchers...
...rejected, a freeze on MIRVed heavies. Besides, Pentagon and CIA analysts had been saying for some time that the Soviet SS-19 rocket, technically classified as a light launcher, was more accurate and therefore at least as threatening as its brutish big brother, the heavy...
...watch, because of its ability to remain over one place for months, it can not only detect bursts of heat with infrared sensors but also record developments with extraordinarily accurate cameras. These photographs can reveal strategically important changes being made at Soviet missile silos, like modification of the launcher size, and unusual traffic to and from a suspected new missile site. Another of the satellite's most important functions is to tune in on electronic data being relayed from missiles to Soviet tracking stations during tests...
...with offensive weapons, froze the U.S. strategic arsenal at 1,710 land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and submarine-launched missiles (SLBMS); the Soviet arsenal was set at 2,358 ICBMS and SLBMS. The Russians were allowed a quantitative superiority, as well as the right to keep 308 mammoth launchers (unmatched by anything in the U.S. arsenal), as a balance to America's sophisticated technology in missile accuracy and in MIRVs (multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles). These separately targeted war heads can be mounted on a single rocket, thus vastly increasing that launcher's destructive potential. Unlike...