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They had no trouble agreeing on two issues that had been well sorted out beforehand. The first limits each nation to defending just one locale with anti-ballistic missiles. (The U.S. is protecting a Minuteman missile launch site in Grand Forks, N. Dak.; the Russians are ringing Moscow.) The second agreement strengthens the 1963 treaty banning major nuclear-weapons testing everywhere except underground. Starting on March 31, 1976, both countries will be restricted to testing warheads with yields of less than 150 kilotons-the equivalent of 150,000 tons of TNT. The delay in enforcement will give the Soviets time...
...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...
...difference between the two teams was the ability of the Harvard defensive centurions to cripple the Minuteman scoring threats with peerless clears. The defense was not foiled in clearing attempts over the entire second half...
...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...