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...second and equally important phase of upgrading the Minuteman III will begin in the fall of 1979, when the missile's Mk-12 warhead will be replaced with the Mk-12A. Using miniaturized arming and fusing components, the new warhead will be able to contain enough payload to double its explosive yield from 170 kilotons to 350 kilotons of TNT. This is still far below the 1 megaton (1,000 kilotons) clout of each of the eight warheads carried in the huge SS-18 that the Soviet Union is already deploying. But, with the improved guidance system, the Mk...
...American technological superiority over the Russians. But it also poses difficult problems in arms control. The advances add one more complex variable to the equation of mutual deterrence. About 75% of the Soviets' 3,500 warheads are carried by land-based missiles that would be vulnerable to the Mk-12A (in contrast, more than 60% of the 8,500 American warheads are mounted on Poseidon and Polaris missiles in submarines). Understandably, the Soviet Union is concerned about the new American warheads. Last week Georgy Arbatov, head of Moscow's U.S.A. Institute, which analyzes American affairs and advises...
Besides ARPA. BBN is also involved in acoustics research for the Navy, a North Cambridge Vietnam Committee spokesman said yesterday. The company helped develop the MK-48 torpedo, whose automatic sonar system was later used in the mines dropped into North Vietnamese harbors last spring, he added...
...which small segment of the Bay Bridge do you refer when you say, "MK built the San Francisco side of the 4,62O-ft. Bay Bridge...
...Actually eight: MK, Henry J. Kaiser Co. (Oakland, Calif.), W. A. Bechtel (San Francisco), Utah Construction Co., MacDonald & Kahn Inc. (San Francisco), J. F. Shea Co.. Inc. (Los Angeles), Pacific Bridge Co. (Portland, Ore.) and General Construction Co. (Seattle...