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Inflation and pay boosts are also responsible for $5 billion of the increase in the amount proposed for next year. But the heart of the budget argument and the portion that is aimed as a warning message at Moscow is the Pentagon request for $9.4 billion for research and development of new weapons in fiscal 1975, an amount on top of the $8.1 billion being spent for that purpose this year. Schlesinger has long believed that "the appropriate means for hedging against surprise is through an enhanced R. and D. program." The budget, the first to be drawn up under...
...better American guidance systems enable the U.S. warheads to strike within a quarter of a mile of the target. The Pentagon believes that Soviet missiles can do no better than hit one-half mile from the target. The Soviets depend on size to compensate for their missiles' inferior electronic brainpower...
...rough balance of nuclear forces ?and the equanimity of Pentagon planners?was unexpectedly upset last summer when the Russians conducted those earlier tests...
...figure vary widely. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute believes that it averages up to $10 billion a year, while U.S. intelligence analysts say that the current expenditure is more like $16 billion-$20 billion. In comparison, the U.S. in recent years has been spending about $8 billion annually. Pentagon Research Chief Malcolm R. Currie says that the Russians have greatly enlarged the pool of engineers and scientists available to its military effort, though it is not known how many are actually engaged in such research. In 1960 Russia had 225,000 research scientists and engineers, while...
Outside the Pentagon, there is widespread agreement that Russia is indeed striving to surpass the American nuclear arsenal. Declares Foreign Affairs Specialist Zbigniew Brzezinski: "SALT I on the American side was a plateauing in weapons development. Given the secrecy and level of Soviet development, the situation is increasingly less and less stable." Arid in the Kissinger-Schlesinger world view, stability is the key not only to security but diplomacy. But there is disagreement over whether the nuclear statistics have any real meaning. According to M.I.T. Political Scientist George Rathjens, "More hardware at this point is irrelevant [because] modest numbers...