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...Return. The outlook is far from optimistic. Both the U.S. and Russia are conducting advanced tests of the next generation of nuclear weaponry, particularly the missile system known as MIRV (multiple individually targetable re-entry vehicles). Since each MIRVed rocket is capable of carrying a number of warheads, and each warhead is capable of being delivered to a separate target, the system vastly increases the destructive power of an individual missile. Some experts believe that the point of no return has already been reached in the eventual deployment of MIRVs. Even if the SALT negotiators were to agree quickly...
...overwhelming vote of 72 to 6, the Senate passed a resolution calling on the Administration to propose "an immediate mutual moratorium" of indeterminate duration on the further deployment of all strategic nuclear weapons. The moratorium would include anti-ballistic missiles (ABMs) and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) as well as MIRVs. Former Presidential Adviser McGeorge Bundy urged the President to go even farther by ordering a unilateral stand-down in MIRV and ABM deployments for a limited period of time. Perhaps most significant of all, a 14-member committee of senior statesmen and scientists, appointed by the President, reportedly recommended that...
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...
...must continue the efforts begun last year to bring a real understanding of the issues to our fellow citizens and our Congress," Wiesner said in a recent public address. "You must all help with this. Stop MIRV...