Word: mirved
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Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) told a crowd of 2000 people at M. I. T.'s Kresge Auditorium Friday that the Nixon administration is undermining the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) by insisting on the immediate deployment' of ABM and MIRV weapon systems, and that "If the Administration will not act rationally, then the Congress must...
Kennedy urged a freeze on the deployment of the two new weapon systems and said he would lead a bipartisan effort in Congress to cut off funds for ABM and MIRV...
Even before the Senate resolution was adopted, Nixon dismissed it as "irrelevant." White House observers are convinced that he still leans toward the wait-and-see approach of his chief foreign affairs adviser, Henry Kissinger, who is dubious of the safety of an interim MIRV ban. Kissinger maintains that the U.S., once committed, might be trapped in an unenforceable, open-ended moratorium by the pressures of domestic and foreign opinion. After a special two-hour pre-SALT session of the National Security Council last week, Nixon noted that his eventual decision will prove "tremendously important" to the security of "hundreds...
...Soviets, for their part, seemed to show little hope that negotiators can keep the MIRV genie in the bottle. In USA magazine, a Russian-language monthly, International Affairs Writer Anatoly Khlebnikov argued recently that "the further stage of the arms race has already been determined" by Nixon's missile policy. He did speculate, however, that the U.S. might be continuing to develop its multiple-warhead weapons in an attempt to gain a "favorable position" at SALT. The Kremlin, for that matter, has done exactly the same thing. Only two weeks ago, the Soviet Strategic Missile Forces completed the latest...
Rough Standoff. While MIRV development is the single most pressing issue, SALT negotiators will be discussing the whole range of strategic weapons. What makes this task so difficult is that while each nation apparently feels that it has achieved parity with the other, their arsenals differ in important ways. The Soviets, for example, have more (an estimated 1,350) and larger land-based intercontinental missile launchers than the U.S. (1,054), but America's Minutemen are more accurate. With 41 submarines carrying 16 Polaris missiles each, the U.S. has about three times as much sub-launched missile capability...