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> Is the Soviet Union, by agreeing to count warheads, trying to prevent modernization of the independent British and French nuclear forces? By the early 1990s, Britain plans to replace its 64 Polaris missiles with 32 U.S.-built Trident submarine-launched ballistic missiles with eight to ten independently targetable re-entry...
In fact, when they are lined up nuke for nuke beside the vast arsenals held by both the U.S. and the Soviet Union, the British and French missiles do not seem worth counting. France's force de frappe consists of five nuclear-powered submarines, each equipped with 16 single...
The second and private assurance-communicated on the President's instructions by Robert Kennedy to Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin on the evening of Oct. 27-was that the President had determined that once the crisis was resolved, the American missiles then in Turkey would be removed. (The essence of...
Although for separate reasons neither the public nor the private assurance ever became a formal commitment of the U.S. Government, the validity of both was demonstrated by our later actions; there was no invasion of Cuba, and the vulnerable missiles in Turkey (and Italy) were withdrawn, with allied concurrence, to...
But Britain's economic woes and the fading need to defend an empire have dramatically reduced the Royal Navy. As Britain assembled a task force and sent it steaming toward the South Atlantic last week, the once Grand Fleet had shrunk to two light carriers, 14 destroyers, 46 frigates...