Word: mirved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter package is called--have no more chance of succeeding in the Kremlin now than when they were first proposed. The Russians justifiably condemned Carter's initiative then as one-sided. In seeking to curb the Soviets' efforts to turn their stable of intercontinental ballistic missiles into MIRV's (multiple independently-targeted re-entry vehicles), the President proposed the restriction of a system that the Russians depend on heavily, and the U.S. does not. Our ace in the whole, after all, would appear to be the new cruise missile...
...York Times can pound it into the public consciousness, as it did last Sunday, that "cruise missiles are not really comparable to MIRV s," but they don't care much for the Times in Moscow--and that's what counts. Unfortunately, approaches along the lines of the Carter proposal, which the Soviets have already rejected, make up about the only arguments that both hawks and doves in the U.S. can agree upon. Or so says Earl C. Ravenal, a former Defense Department policy-maker, in the September issue of The Atlantic Montly. The 1974 Vladivostock accord, he argues, pleased...
...with development of the controversial air-launched cruise missile, a weapon that has been a major cause of the standing impasse at the SALT talks, is likely to make agreement even more difficult. The action is reminiscent, in kind if not in degree, of the American decision to deploy MIRVed warheads during the SALT I negotiations. That decision effectively dashed hopes of significant MIRV restraints in 1972. Finally, additional restraint on strategic development will be necessary even after the establishment of SALT II ceilings on missile deployment, if those ceilings are not to become merely the floor for the next...
...Development could be held back on the new U.S. cruise missile, a jet-propelled bomb that can be launched from a plane or sub and has a range of 1,400 to 2,300 miles. Reason: the proposal would count any bomber carrying cruise missiles against the 1,320 MIRV limit set at Vladivostok. As a result, the U.S. would have to give up some existing MIRVed missiles, such as land-based Minuteman Ills or submarine-based Poseidons-a sacrifice that the Pentagon is unwilling to make...
...stylebook is more than twice as long as the old one, and the added bulk is largely words and terms that were practically unknown in 1962. Some may eventually prove to be short-lived inventions, but herewith a brief sample: marijuana, quark, ESP, NOW, IUD, OPEC, MIRV, sit-in, mugging, détente...