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...ethnic-cultural lines and talked for awhile of siding with Gorbachev to keep a central government alive. His defection from the commonwealth would have been a serious blow, since among other things it would have prevented any unified or even joint command over nuclear weapons; many of the biggest multiwarhead intercontinental Soviet missiles are based in Kazakhstan...
...ever makes. In early April the President must choose a multibillion-dollar plan for modernizing the nation's land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles. Though dozens of basing modes and several new missiles have been considered, only two expensive mobile missile systems are really in the running: the rail-carried, multiwarhead MX and the truck-transported, single- warhead Midgetman. Bush's wisest course might be to deploy neither...
...Reykjavik, the plan calls for a 50% reduction in overall nuclear warheads, down to 6,000 for each side. Of those, the combined number of intercontinental ballistic missiles plus submarine-launched ballistic missiles was limited at 4,900. No more than 1,540 warheads can be on heavy multiwarhead missiles. They also agreed to a limit of 1,600 delivery systems (missile launchers, bombers, etc.). Verification procedures remain to be worked out, although U.S. officials feel their earlier breakthroughs on INF on-site inspections will take them a long way toward finding solutions...
...reached at a secret National Security Council meeting, seemed to have something for each of the warring factions in the Administration: though it preserved SALT II for the moment, it also accelerated work on the small mobile missile known as the Midgetman and ordered a study of the larger, multiwarhead Mobileman missile sought by the Pentagon...
Reagan was forced into a SALTbox in part because the U.S. will soon be in violation of one of the agreement's provisions. When the Navy begins sea trials of the U.S.S. Alaska Trident submarine in September, the U.S. will have 14 more than the 1,200 multiwarhead land- and sea-based missiles each side is permitted. To stay within the limit, it must either retire and disable an older 16-missile Poseidon sub or destroy at least 14 Minuteman land missiles. Hard-liners argued against taking either course; they wanted the U.S. to exceed the limit deliberately. Reagan chose...