Word: mirved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jinxed F-111 bomber, a plane that even the Republican National Committee labelled as "unacceptable." He testified that it was "proving to be an outstanding aircraft," while failing to mention that three of the six original prototypes had recently crashed. Brown also pushed immediate deployment of the ABM and MIRV defense systems while others called for arms control. Thus, Brown's expected support of the B-1 should be viewed with some skepticism...
...Brezhnev visits Washington later this year. A new treaty will supersede the 1972 SALT I accord, which temporarily froze the total number of strategic missiles but gave the Soviets an advantage in the absolute number of missiles. That agreement was made, despite strong Pentagon opposition, to offset the commanding MIRV lead the U.S. then enjoyed. SALT II will, among other things, limit the U.S. and U.S.S.R. to one anti-ballistic missile site each, instead of the two ABMs permitted by SALT...
...MIRV AND MARV: No greater challenge faces the architects of electronic warfare than to devise a defense against MIRV (for multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicles) nuclear missiles, which scatter warheads toward several different targets after the rocket re-enters the atmosphere. The more deadly MARVs (for maneuvering reentry vehicles) have several separate nuclear payloads that can be maneuvered in different directions and at varying speeds as they plunge toward earth -making them even more difficult to intercept. The U.S. has already MIRVed a good number of its missiles and hopes eventually to MARV others. To help meet the threat...
They are also working on an SS-18 missile that can deliver up to eight individual warheads. The U.S. now has a huge advantage in MIRV missiles. By next year it will have deployed 1,046 MIRVS, including 550 Minuteman III missiles and 496 Poseidon missiles in 31 submarines. It should approach the 1,300 limit when ten new Trident submarines, each carrying 24 MIRV missiles, are completed in the mid-1980s...
...Russian lead in offensive missiles-a lead of 2,358 to 1,710-with the 3-to-l American advantage in warheads, counting the MIR vs. The Russians' nightmare was their conviction that the U.S. is far stronger than they are today, largely because of its lead in MIRV technology; the Americans' fear was that the Soviets, catching up in MlRVs and with more launchers to mount them on, could surge ahead in the future. Brezhnev refused every mix of launchers and warheads proposed by Nixon, insisting that he would accept no proposal that in his view locked...