Word: mirved
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...missile push it up through the atmosphere and into space. 2) Post-boost. On reaching the edge of space five minutes or so after launch, a device known as a bus detaches itself and maneuvers for another five minutes or so, releasing up to ten MIRV (for Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicle) warheads at different targets in the U.S. The bus may also release up to 100 decoys, many of them aluminum-foil balloons. 3) Mid-course. The warheads and decoys speed through the emptiness of space for more than ten minutes. 4) Re-entry. The vehicles plunge back...
While the Pentagon tries to build the U.S. a perfect shield, it is hard at work trying to overcome Soviet defenses. In the late '60s the U.S. developed the MIRV (multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle) to saturate Soviet antimissile systems. Now that the Soviets are again beefing up their own defenses, the Pentagon is asking $174 million to develop a MARV (maneuverable reentry vehicle) that could dart and weave to avoid anti- missile missiles. The disclosure of the MARV research is awkward for the Reagan Administration because it undercuts the President's argument that it is possible to build...
...MIRV: Multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicle, one of a cluster of nuclear warheads mounted on a single missile that can be hurled at different targets...
Fairness compels me to point out that the decision to proceed with MIRVs was taken by President Johnson and was made irrevocable in the Nixon Administration. We proceeded because in the climate of the Viet Nam period we were reluctant to give up the one strategic offensive program that was funded with which to counter the rapid Soviet missile force buildup; because we doubted that the Soviets could achieve accuracies to threaten our missile force in the foreseeable future; and because the Soviets ignored our hints to open the subject of a MIRV ban in the SALT talks. Whatever...
...Both sides would also agree to dismantle the remaining land-based MIRV forces starting...