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...launched nuclear weapons is 909. v. 656. The main American advantages remain in its bombers (417. v. 140). the accuracy of its missiles and the number of warheads (9,000, v. 4,000). But many of these warheads may become vulnerable to destruction by a Soviet attack in the mid-1980s if Moscow improves and deploys large numbers of the SS-18 and SS-19 missiles that it is now testing. Declared William Hyland: "We are at a crossroads because of the trends in Soviet policy. The gap between our capabilities to gain some advantage by striking first and Soviet...
...unless they receive from the U.S. a demonstration of good faith?namely, the sale of the F-15s. If the U.S. withholds the planes, the Saudis are not likely to expand their production capacity, and the U.S. and its allies could run into critical energy shortages by the mid-1980s...
...peaking. Last year the CIA issued a detailed report predicting that the nation's most productive wells, notably the huge Samotlor field and those along the Urals (see map), would soon be drying up. Thus, concluded the CIA, the Soviets will become net importers of oil by the mid-1980s. Reason: they are pumping too much too fast and do not possess the technology needed to bring in new wells in the forbidding climes of the Arctic Circle and Bering Sea. Says Energy Secretary James Schlesinger: "If anything, the CIA report was optimistic...
...source of the bonanza is North Sea oil. By the end of 1977, taxes and royalties on it will have brought the government a trifling $9.5 million. But during 1978 and 1979, the government's take will multiply a thousand times, and by the mid-1980s Whitehall's share will be running at $6.7 billion a year...
...authorization to spend up to $100 million for construction of a storage facility. The Government favors eventually depositing the spent fuel on a more nearly permanent basis in geologic formations like salt beds. But studies to determine the feasibility of such storage methods will not be completed until the mid-1980s...