Word: mirved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their own MiRVed missiles. The U.S. had thought the Russians were five years away from developing MIRV. Despite the tests, Schlesinger does not expect Russia to finish development of MIRV technology before 1976?and, more important, does not expect the Soviets to match U.S. inventory before the mid-1980s. Still, the tests were a disquieting sign that the relentless Soviet momentum in weapons research is closing the technology...
...unimportant, reverted to Stalinist methods of marshaling opinion, and openly challenged the West as to how firmly it is prepared to stand by its humanist beliefs. Soviet suppression of dissenting opinion, in short, has become as much of a challenge to the West as the recent Soviet MIRV (multiple targetable re-entry vehicles) tests that violated the spirit of the SALT talks and of Nixon-Brezhnev summitry...
Warhead Gap. There is not, however, any limitation on improving existing ICBMS under the executive agreement. Thus the arms race is expected to turn to qualitative rather than quantitative efforts. U.S. experts estimate that it will take the Russians until the late '70s to develop and deploy MIRV missiles and thus close the warhead gap -if the U.S. stops further MIRV deployment. The U.S., meanwhile, is free to go ahead with advances like its ULMS longer-range submarine-launched missile system, which involves at least ten advanced subs with 24 missiles each. Both sides are expected to spend heavily...
...protect American ICBM silos. Now in its initial stages, after barely gaining congressional approval, the ABM program can be modified to fit any possible agreement. Until an accord is reached, the U.S. intends to go ahead with additional ABM sites as well as with the deployment of MIRV, multiwarhead missiles designed to penetrate the Soviet Galosh (ABM) network. Said Defense Secretary Melvin Laird: "It is clear that our strength has made possible the hope for success at SALT...
...Pentagon has been pushing for stepped-up development of bigger and better strategic weapons. Meanwhile, the Air Force has deployed its first squadron of 50 Minuteman 3 missiles at Minot Air Force Base, N. Dak., and the Navy has sent on patrol a Poseidon-equipped submarine with 16 MIRV missiles carrying ten to twelve warheads apiece...