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Unfortunately, the advent of a new weapons system complicates the outlook for a broader agreement. Even as the negotiators talked in Vienna, the U.S. was installing Minuteman III and Poseidon missiles that carry formidable MIRVs (multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicles). Composed of a cluster of three or more nuclear warheads that are aimed separately at widely scattered objectives, MIRVs greatly increase the destructive scope of a single missile. They also introduce an extremely difficult factor into SALT. While the U.S. and Soviet Union can effectively check on the number of the other's ICBMs with...
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...
About 2000 more people listened to Kennedy's remarks over loudspeaker systems in the lobby of Kresge and in the M. I. T. Student Center. The greatest response came when Kennedy suggested that American development of MIRV might force the Soviet Union to adopt a "launch on warning system...
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...