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...development of the controversial MX missile system, though just how it would be deployed is now under review. A plan to move the mobile missile on tracks through vast stretches of Utah and Nevada has drawn sharp opposition in those states. A proposal to place up to 320 Tomahawk cruise missiles, which can hurl nuclear warheads over a 1,500-mile range, on each of the two battleships would also strengthen the U.S. nuclear arsenal...
...miles for the Pershing 1 A, which the new weapons will replace). The GLCM (or "glickum," in Pentagon jargon), to be deployed in Britain, West Germany and Italy, and later, perhaps, in Belgium and The Netherlands, is a dry-land version of the U.S. Navy's Tomahawk sea-launched cruise missile. It is designed to be a subsonic weapon with a range of about 1,500 miles and a lot of maneuverability; it will be able to fly at treetop level and follow a serpentine course, and can be recalled at any time before it reaches its target...
Well along the development cycle also is the submarine-launched cruise missile (SLCM). A General Dynamics Tomahawk had its sixth successful underwater firing last week off California. Planned mainly as an antiship weapon, the SLCM can carry a conventional or nuclear warhead about 300 nautical miles. By 1982, the first of these weapons are to be deployed on U.S. warships...
Very serious. Throughout the year, in more than 100 clubs in West Germany, devotees of the Old West spend thousands of man-hours and deutsche marks preparing their costumes or polishing such arcane skills for the council competitions as tomahawk throwing, quick-drawing, and tossing lariats. Then, at the three-day camp-out, they can relive the American frontier days in full dress with almost complete historical veracity...
...Tomahawk is billed by the Defense Department as potentially one of the most important weapons in the U.S. arsenal. One version is designed to be launched from a submarine, fly as far as 2,000 miles and deliver its nuclear warhead within a few yards of its target. Another version, intended to sink enemy ships, carries a conventional warhead and has a range of more than 240 miles. Last week, at the Pentagon's invitation, about 40 reporters and photographers joined Defense Secretary Harold Brown on San Clemente Island to watch the submarine U.S.S. Guitarro launch an antiship Tomahawk...