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...superpowers should also re-examine their strategic nuclear forces, with the goal of achieving a far more stable balance. They should ban land-based multiple-warhead (MIRV) missiles, which are tempting targets for a first strike because an attacker can destroy the three to 14 warheads on such launchers by expending only one or two warheads...
...With U.S. and Soviet nuclear warheads shrinking to half their present levels after a START treaty, the U.S. could press ahead for a ban on land- based MIRVed missiles. A ban would significantly favor the U.S. in numerical terms because the Soviets have far more of these monsters, such as the SS-18, which carries more than ten warheads. A MIRV ban would do away with existing U.S. missile systems like the ten-warhead MX and the triple-warhead Minuteman III. The cost of dismantling these existing systems would effectively cancel out the relatively small saving in operating costs. Saving...
...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...