Word: tomahawk
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...Lewis these days could hardly be more uncomfortable if he were the target of a barrage of his company Tomahawk cruise missiles. Fleets of investigators and critics are challenging General Dynamics' integrity and its fitness to be a pillar of the nation's defense, raising charges far more extensive than those leveled against General Electric last week. The Pentagon attack on General Dynamics' expense reports and the Justice Department probe into overruns on the company's SSN 688 Los Angeles-class submarines are only the most publicized of many investigations. The Securities and Exchange Commission is studying whether the company...
...Boeing Co. for billing a reported $127,000 of political contributions in 1982. While the aerospace company has already withdrawn reimbursement requests for some of its donations, it stands by some $65,000 in political expenses. Meanwhile, General Dynamics, which makes the F-16 fighter, the Trident submarine and Tomahawk cruise missiles, pledged to "satisfy the Defense Department's concerns regarding the validity of its billing procedure...
...that the missile was most likely an old model that Moscow had had in its naval arsenal for more than 20 years, rather than a test version of the SS-NX-21, a long-range (2,000-mile) weapon that the Soviets are developing to compete with the American Tomahawk, a missile that has had several errant flights of its own. Nonetheless, the mishap pointed up the dangers of such weapons, whether nuclear or conventional, which cannot be controlled with absolute precision...
...continues by describing the detailed alliance consultations which produced the so-called "dual-track" decision of 1978--planned deployment of American Pershing II ballistic missiles and Tomahawk cruise missiles to "couple" irrevocably U.S. nuclear defense to the defense of Europe, and simultaneous negotiations to eliminate or reduce this deployment, if the Soviet Union responded in kind with their SS-20 intermediate range missiles...
...long lead in monster land-based missiles. The Reagan Administration regards these as the most "destabilizing" and dangerous nuclear weapons because they could deliver a devastating first strike. Unlike the INF talks, the START negotiations were never formally ended. But after the deployment of U.S. Pershing II and Tomahawk missiles in Europe began, the Soviets contended that they would have to reassess the global nuclear balance before proposing a date to restart START. Twenty-two months later they still show no signs of ever doing...