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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...
...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...