Word: minuteman
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...result two unearned Minuteman runs, three Crimson errors and an example of the kind of day the batmen were going to have...
...SALT I treaty limiting ABMs is the only nuclear arms control agreement still legally in force between the superpowers. As amended in 1974, it restricts each side to one ABM installation. The U.S. has already retired and put into storage its own Safeguard system that was protecting the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile field at Grand Forks, N. Dak. The U.S.S.R. still has an operational ABM system surrounding Moscow. The ABM treaty is generally regarded as the most valuable achievement in the otherwise controversial and, to many, disappointing history of U.S.-Soviet arms negotiations...
...about 150 Minuteman missiles and quite a few B-52's sitting out there." Haggerty says, "Basically, there's a lot of nuclear power out there." he adds laughing...
...accuracy and hardening the silos of existing ones. "The Soviets have deployed more highly accurate MX-like ICBM warheads in each of the past three years than are contained in our entire MX program," said Weinberger. "They possess the ability to destroy a large percentage of our own Minuteman ICBMs in their silos, while still providing a substantial, and largely invulnerable, reserve...
...second phase reportedly would involve deploying thousands of smaller missiles, either in much deeper holes or on special mobile launchers. The mobile option would provide the deception that the MX lacked, either in Minuteman silos or in the rejected Dense Pack proposal to cluster 100 missiles at a single site. While a small mobile missile has long been considered by the Pentagon, no significant funds have been spent in developing it. Its deployment, experts estimate, could not begin for at least seven years...