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...MIRV AND MARV: No greater challenge faces the architects of electronic warfare than to devise a defense against MIRV (for multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicles) nuclear missiles, which scatter warheads toward several different targets after the rocket re-enters the atmosphere. The more deadly MARVs (for maneuvering reentry vehicles) have several separate nuclear payloads that can be maneuvered in different directions and at varying speeds as they plunge toward earth -making them even more difficult to intercept. The U.S. has already MIRVed a good number of its missiles and hopes eventually to MARV others. To help meet the threat...
...course, has not marked time in weapons advances since the signing of the SALT agreement. It has moved ahead in more than two dozen areas. In June, Congress authorized the Department of Defense to improve the accuracy of its Minuteman III ICBMs and to perfect a missile warhead (called MaRV) that can be maneuvered in flight to avoid Soviet missile defenses. Such improved accuracy would give the U.S. a better chance of destroying Soviet land-based ICBMS. A danger: this first-strike capacity could upset the nuclear balance in the same way that the Soviets would if they MlRVed...
...major debate this year was over one of the smallest items: a request for $77 million. It will finance research to increase the accuracy and yield of the U.S.'s 550 nuclear-tipped Minuteman III missiles and develop a highly accurate MARV (maneuverable re-entry vehicle) warhead that can change direction to elude defensive missiles...
...million for advanced ICBM technology. Included in it is money for a new nuclear warhead called MaRV (for maneuverable re-entry vehicle) that could change direction in flight?something no country's ICBMS do now?to evade defensive missiles. It also would be more accurate than any existing Minuteman warhead...
With only 20 saves against eight goals, goalie Joe Bertagna contributed to the deluge, leaving rebounds sitting at his feet and showing as much of a glove as Marv Throneberry fielding...