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...nuclear arms race. It allows both the Soviets and Americans to continue to modernize and replace their current weapons with more powerful ones. Therefore SALT partially funnels strategic competition from quantitative to qualitative grounds. SALT will allow both sides to deploy on new land-based system such as the MX ICBM in the U.S.; it will also allow those systems to be mobile, although the U.S. wrote in the 1972 SALT I agreements that mobile systems would violate the spirit of the negotiations...
...spending and may very well increase it. The U.S., in not atypical fashion of "negotiating through strength," is deploying the new Trident submarine; the projected ten Tridents will cost the taxpayer about $20 billion. Additional systems, under consideration as "bargaining chips" to obtain Senate ratification of SALT, are the MX ICBM at $30-50 billion, and several thousand air-launched cruise missiles at $30 billion...
...Marine Corps' rugged boot-camp training in the forests at Quantico; are in charge of the Army's firing range at Fort Jackson; are chief instructor pilots at Williams Air Force Base; are overhauling U.S. tank engines in West Germany; and are helping create the new MX missile at the Strategic Air Command's missile design center outside Omaha...
...complex collection of new formulas and definitions for the modernization of missiles and the testing of new ones. Washington officials, pressed by SALT critics who fear that U.S. ICBMS may soon become vulnerable to increasingly accurate Soviet missiles, have been insisting on the right to develop the MX, a new, multiwarhead mobile weapon. One early plan was to mount the new missiles on railroad tracks in covered trenches so that the Russians could never know precisely where they were. But it was found that such a rail system might itself be penetrated. Another possibility is being promoted by the Defense...
...deploy about 2,200 nuclear-weapon launchers (including strategic bombers). Furthermore, it is not expected to cut the number of Soviet monster rockets, like the SS-18, which could threaten the U.S. Minuteman missiles. As a result, Washington is considering going ahead with the development of the sophisticated MX missile. The mobility of the MX, which may run on underground rails, will make it an elusive target for Soviet missiles, theoretically ensuring that it can survive to make a counterattack...