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...deep in Kazakhstan near the Aral Sea, two giant Soviet rockets streaked 4,500 miles to a target area some 850 miles northwest of Midway in the Pacific late last month. It was Russia's first full-range test of its SS-19 intercontinental ballistic missile. Like the U.S. Minuteman III, it carries multiple nuclear warheads aimed at separate targets. To U.S. military strategists in the Pentagon, the successful Soviet firings were fresh confirmation that for all the genuine gains of detente, the arms race between the world's premier superpowers is still very much alive...
...bounce." In anything other than an all-out nuclear war, however, accuracy of missiles becomes the critical factor. Here the U.S. has a substantial technological advantage. It requires three of Russia's burly S59 missiles?each with a 25-megaton yield?to hit the same targets as one U.S. Minuteman III with its three warheads and total yield of 600 kilotons...
...submarines in 1978. The budget also contains $500 million for development of the B-l bomber. The Air Force hopes to buy 244 of them for $11 billion by 1980 as a successor to aging B-52s. In addition, the Air Force wants $20.6 million to test-fire eight Minuteman missiles from their silos in Montana 5,000 miles into the Pacific to demonstrate the system's reliability. The budget also would permit researchers to begin work on several new weapons systems. Among the items...
Carl Biello looked like he would manhandle his Minuteman but he sustained a neck injury in the second period...
Tickets are available for $4.50 at the Out of Town News, Minuteman-Soundscope record stores, and at the door...