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Reagan did nothing to soothe relations in an Independence Day speech at a "Spirit of America" festival in Decatur, Ala. Without specifically naming the U.S.S.R., he proclaimed: "The totalitarian world is a tired place held down by the gravity of its own devising, and America is a rocket pushing upward to the stars." Despite the purple prose, he seemed to be genuine about pursuing the talks. He wrote a personal letter to Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko, which echoed his public stand on the proposed space talks. The letter and a message from Shultz were given to Dobrynin to take back...
...monitored at least 20 tests of the Soviet ASAT weapon: a 150-ft.-long S59 rocket, which uses radar to home in on its target. It is not very effective at altitudes beyond 1,000 miles. All but 18 of the 100-odd U.S. satellites orbit higher than that, and some key ones are 22,300 miles away (where they remain in geostationary orbit over a single spot on earth). The Soviet rocket would take up to 90 minutes to intercept a target on the weapon's first orbit. Because it uses radar, the system is vulnerable to electronic...
...CRUISE MISSILE: A jet-powered drone that flies, or "cruises," through the atmosphere, rather than arcing into space on a ballistic trajectory, like a rocket. The cruise missile finds its way to a target by matching the terrain over which it flies against a map stored in its computerized brain. Because it is small (about 18 ft. long) and flies very low, it is difficult for the Air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) on test flight enemy to track and intercept. There are three varieties: the air-launched cruise missile, ALCM (pronounced al-kum), which is fired from a bomber...
...ICBM: Intercontinental ballistic missile, a rocket usually intended to be fired from an underground silo in the U.S. or U.S.S.R. that can reach the territory of the other superpower. It is the most destructive of strategic weapons, but also the most vulnerable, since until it is fired, it is stationary and can be fairly easily targeted by the other side. The principal American ICBM is the Minuteman III, with three warheads; the main Soviet ones are the SS-18, with ten warheads, and the SS-19, with...
...American proposal that meets them halfway. What would be required is nothing less than a whole new American START negotiating position, one that offers more in the way of genuine concessions on cruise missiles and demands less in the way of drastic reductions in the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces. The best alternative to surface so far is the State Department's framework approach of last year, with its combination of ceilings on launchers (including bombers) and warheads (including cruise missiles...