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...Meanwhile, the research effort led to Nike-X, an expanded and refined system that employs two types of missiles and electronically operated radars that can handle numerous targets simultaneously (see box next page). Theoretically, at least, the Nike-X proj ect ? which is still receiving $175 million a year in development funds ? thus overcame some of the main technical problems posed by Zeus...
...Chiefs of Staff, and particularly the Army ? which has jurisdiction over land-based ABMs ? continued to press for its installation on the grounds that some protection was better than none. Army General Earle Wheeler, J.C.S. chairman, has argued that a full-fledged ABM might save between 50 million and 80 million American lives...
...McNamara finally presented two alternative schemes, one involving an investment of $12.2 billion and an other costing $21.7 billion. The less ex pensive approach might reduce the death toll to 40 million (from an estimated high of 120 million). The second sys tem might lower fatalities to 30 million. Yet these calculations were essentially academic numbers games based on constantly changing realities. They presumed a static Russian defensive capability as it existed in 1967. McNamara himself pointed out the big drawback: "We can be certain that the Soviets will react to offset the advantage we would hope to gain...
...frequently violate their airspace. In the past three years, Moscow has built up its strength along its Asian borders to an estimated 25 divisions. They face about 50 Chinese divisions in Manchuria alone, and another seven divisions in Sinkiang. The London Sunday Express reported that Peking has ordered 5 million more troops to reinforce border divisions. There are reports that the Russians have built a complex of sites for medium-range missiles near the border, thus threatening Manchuria and the nuclear-testing grounds in Sinkiang...
...Soviet relations. Frail diplomatic links still exist, though neither nation now maintains an ambassador in the other's capital. Party relations have been virtually nonexistent since 1963. Some trade still continues, but a recent Soviet survey reports that current two-way trade, estimated in 1967 to be $106 million, is less than 6% of 1961 levels. Given the steady disintegration of the once solid partnership of the two Communist giants, the frontier clashes-and last week's explosion-became inevitable...