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...number of their warheads. There is a limitation on range of cruise missiles that we would find very disadvantageous. Finally, I personally think what they intend is no new systems deployment permitted. The Soviets having deployed their new systems, this would prevent us from going ahead with the small (Midgetman) missile, the MX, the "Stealth" (bomber...
...offensive force and intimidate the enemy. The issue will become an important factor as the U.S. gradually moves away from a land-based ICBM force made up of multiple-warhead missiles in underground fixed silos (like the Minuteman) and relies more on mobile single-warhead missiles (the proposed Midgetman). Such weapons would be vulnerable to a barrage of enemy warheads, and very high levels of throw weight translate into an increased ability to conduct barrage attacks...
...garages" easily detectable by U.S. spy satellites, they are experimenting with a mobile version that can be raised and fired from a railway launcher disguised to look like part of an ordinary freight train. The smaller SS-X-25, which has a single warhead comparable to the proposed U.S. Midgetman, will be transported and launched from flatbed trucks...
...transition to other, less vulnerable weapons. A presidential commission headed by retired Air Force Lieut. General Brent Scowcroft, which reluctantly recommended basing the MX in Minuteman silos for the near future, also concluded that the U.S. should begin immediately building a 1,000-unit force of single-headed Midgetman missiles, which will be mobile--and less easily targetable...
...intercontinental ballistic missiles in violation of the treaty's ban on testing more than one. The Kremlin contends that one of the missiles is merely a modernization of an older weapon; the U.S., the Soviets point out, is planning two new missiles, the MX and the Midgetman...