Word: mirved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that nuclear weapons added a new dimension of horror to warfare and new responsibility for national leaders. Arms control could also free resources for building up our conventional and regional forces. Besides, we faced a problem in the strategic field: the increasing conversion of missiles to multiple warheads or MIRV (multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles). If the Soviets MIRVed all of their land-based missiles, our land-based missiles would be at risk by the early '80s. SALT II seemed to me an opportunity to postpone this danger...
...photographers are among the last survivors of a more swashbuckling era of journalism. As the news has become more complicated, a good reporter does much of his best work at his desk sifting through piles of research to understand and make to his readers the likes of SALT and MIRV and je skirmishes of the Battle of the Budget. A photographer, on other hand, must be in the heat of the action, whether it is a or a natural disaster- or a budget meeting. "If you are a reporter you can be behind the front line and still get your...
Visually, the series was nearly always interesting, from its pictures of U.S. officeworkers wearing gas masks and rubber gloves while pecking away at typewriters during a chemical-warfare exercise to a shot of a live American MIRV (three nuclear warheads mounted on the nose cone of a Minuteman III missile). Understated ironies abounded. A fresh-faced American missileman exclaimed with Boy Scout enthusiasm that his task of getting ready to launch a Minuteman at a Soviet target gave him "more responsibility than I could obtain in a civilian world." Commenting on film showing a C-5A cargo plane losing...
...clear superiority in space technology, as admitted by US military officials. It looks as though space warfare is to be added to the list of US "firsts" in the arms race, after the atomic bomb; the intercontinental bomber; the hydrogen bomb; MIRV; sophisticated anti-submarine warfare, etc. The Soviet Union has propoed several times since the 1950s an international treaty banning the use of outer space for military purposes, but the US has been unwilling to sacrifice its own advantage for the sake of slowing the arms race...
...MIRV program was originally considered necessary to counter the extensive anti-ballistic missile systems (ABM) that the Soviet Union was supposedly building by saturating these systems with many bombs at once. Yet even after ABM systems were limited to two for each country in the SALT I treaty, and then one for each in the 1974 Vladivostok Accords, the MIRV program continues in full force. One author suggests that the real reason behind MIRV deployment was rivalry between the Navy and the Air Force, and the latter's desire to have the ability to win a nuclear war, by developing...