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Thus when the SALT I agreement was signed May 26, 1972, Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, felt that there was "relative strategic [nuclear] parity" between the two countries. By 1975 half of the U.S. land-based missiles would be MIRVS (multiple independent re-entry vehicles): each launcher tipped with a package of three independently targeted warheads that can hit widely separated, preplotted targets. Some Soviet missiles in operation then also had multiple warheads, but they were not independently targeted. When fired, they sprayed from the missile launcher along a straight line like pellets from...
Research Gap. To high-ranking officers like Moorer, U.S. military power "has clearly peaked and is now declining." Arms Control Expert Donald G. Brennan of the Hudson Institute fears that if the purse strings are not loosened, the Soviet Union "will pull ahead both in terms of strategic and conventional forces." Both to maintain the strength necessary to make detente work and to protect itself, the U.S. cannot wait for that to happen before acting. New weapons take five to ten years to reach production. General George S. Brown, head of the Air Force Systems Command, points out that...
Among these were documents obtained by Radford when he was Kissinger's secretary-stenographer on trips abroad; one of these trips may have been the secret visit to China in July 1971, five months before the snooping was discovered. Buzhardt did not implicate Moorer; that was done in a report to the White House in early 1972 by David Young, who had been transferred from Kissinger's staff to the plumbers' unit...
...Discipline. Despite Young's findings the Administration decided for several reasons not to discipline anyone involved. Nixon did not want to broadcast the quarrel between Kissinger and the military while delicate negotiations were under way. Evidence of Moorer's involvement was not conclusive at that point, and the President feared that punishing Radford and Welander might somehow cause more diplomatic secrets to be revealed to the public. Radford was shifted to Salem, Ore., where he now works as a personnel administrator at the U.S. Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Training Center. Welander was sent to Charleston...
...Back Channel." At first Moorer dismissed the whole snooping story as "ludicrous" and declared that he had never authorized anything like it. Last week, however, he admitted on NBC'S Today show that he had received some illicitly obtained documents from Kissinger's office in the form of "roughs" and "carbon copies." He had not closed off this "back channel" of information, he said, because everything he got was "essentially useless." In any case, he later got the same information through regular contacts with the White House. Moorer's confession left many viewers incredulous. Was he saying...