Word: mirved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worry is that if there is no progress, the rough equilibrium in nuclear weapons that now exists between the U.S. and the Soviet Union will eventually be upset. Already, both sides have started running the next lap in the arms race: the U.S. has begun deploying Hydraheaded, almost unstoppable MIRV (for multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicle) missiles in the Minuteman 3 and Poseidon submarine programs, and the Soviets may be on the verge of fitting their giant S59 missiles with multiple warheads...
...military: McGovern opposed the ABM and MIRV programs. He has blasted the Nixon defense budget as offering "no respite from the costly interventionist policies of previous administrations. It does not reflect at all the much heralded 'winding down' of the Indochina war. It seeks the same objectives and hopes in vain that they can be achieved with fewer American lives and more American money." He advocated that the $75 billion defense budget be cut by at least $20 billion...
...limit might break the "action-reaction cycle," which encourages each side to develop ever more deadly weapons capable of cracking enemy defenses. With ABM in place, both sides are encouraged to work on MIRV (for multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicles), a system that equips a single rocket with several warheads and is designed to pierce ABM defenses. With ABMs severely limited, the need for MIRVed weapons would be reduced...
...picket line will then move to the I-Labs, where the guidance mechanism for the Defense Department's controversial MIRV system is being developed...
...Absolute things like this pledge don't interest us," he added. "The defense problem is not such a cut-and-dried affair. I suspect no one in the Union of Concerned Scientists would work on MIRV, but as to the ABM, for instance, that depends on what kind of ABM. Probably about nine-tenths of us would work on a laser...