Word: mlrving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subceiling of 1,320 on those weapons regarded as the most destabilizing to the strategic balance (see chart following page). These mainly are the multiwarheads known as MIRVs, the acronym for multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles. By enabling several weapons to be fired from a single launcher, MlRVing has led to the rapid expansion of atomic arsenals even though the number of launchers was frozen by SALT I. The 1,320 subceiling covers not only land-based launchers and submarine tubes, but also long-range bombers fitted to carry cruise missiles, the highly accurate drones that...
Actually, there was at least a step and a half forward at that meeting. While the Soviets now claimed the option of MlRVing their existing types of ICBMs with up to ten re-entry vehicles?an unacceptable proliferation from the American standpoint?they did finally concede that the U.S. had the right to put ten warheads on the MX. Since the U.S. was barred by SALT I from building anything as big and powerful as the SS-18 heavy rocket, it was politically important to the Carter Administration that SALT II allow the U.S. at least to match...
...also would have been Hyland's final grade. He was about to resign from the Government to take a job helping his old boss, Henry Kissinger, write his memoirs. *However, technically the U.S. would have had the right of MlRVing the Minuteman with seven warheads, since the missile had been tested with that number on two occasions during the Ford Administration...
...strategists have long feared that the land-based Soviet rocket force, with its core of Hydraheaded heavy monster missiles, might some day be able to destroy all 1,000 Minutemen in a preemptive strike. Brown and Aaron were tantalized by the idea of using SALT II to restrain the MlRVing of Soviet ICBMS in general and to reduce the number of heavy rockets in particular...