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...produced a scale model of the Soviet S59 missile to illustrate your point that "the worrisome thing is that it's very large" and carries a payload "something like ten times" that of the considerably smaller U.S. Minuteman. What you said was undeniably true. Their missile can carry a 25-megaton warhead; or, if eventually tipped with in dependently targeted re-entry vehicles, it could carry three warheads of five megatons each. Our Minuteman carries a one-megaton warhead, or, as with the new Minuteman III, three warheads of lesser power...
Unfortunately, the advent of a new weapons system complicates the outlook for a broader agreement. Even as the negotiators talked in Vienna, the U.S. was installing Minuteman III and Poseidon missiles that carry formidable MIRVs (multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicles). Composed of a cluster of three or more nuclear warheads that are aimed separately at widely scattered objectives, MIRVs greatly increase the destructive scope of a single missile. They also introduce an extremely difficult factor into SALT. While the U.S. and Soviet Union can effectively check on the number of the other's ICBMs with...
...Minuteman Record and Tape (30 Boylston St.) has a good selection at pretty good prices, with the added bonus that they have tape cassettes and whatnot...
Addis Attaché. Proxmire's case is strongest when most specific. Among other examples, he cites a $4 billion cost overrun for the Minuteman II ICBM; a quadrupling of the original estimated price for the nuclear carrier Nimitz; hundreds of millions misspent on the bug-infested Sheridan and MBT-70 tanks; the $2 billion jump-to more than $5 billion-in the cost of C-5A Galaxy cargo planes...
...matter, has done exactly the same thing. Only two weeks ago, the Soviet Strategic Missile Forces completed the latest tests in the northwest Pacific on the huge S59 rocket, which can carry three five-megaton warheads (making them perhaps 25 times more powerful than those carried by the American Minuteman...