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William Bywater, president of the International Union of Electrical Workers, told the subcommittee that at Litton's Triad-Utrad division in Huntington, Ind., the company had squelched five organizing campaigns by four different unions between 1964 and 1982. During an organizing drive in 1980, charged Bywater, Litton once again started a "massive campaign of fear and intimidation" to stop workers from supporting the union...
...months has rejected two Administration-backed basing modes for the beleaguered MX because they did not solve that problem. The commission's approach: redefine the concept. While admitting that survivability of fixed targets, such as MX missile silos, "may not outlast this century," the panel argued that the triad of bombers plus land-and sea-based strategic weapons, "assessed collectively and not in isolation," guarantees deterrence...
...some years, the Soviets have been building up a sizable, potentially destabilizing advantage in land-based, highly accurate, highly destructive ballistic warheads. The U.S. is seeking to preserve a balance by modernizing the land-and sea-based legs of its strategic triad with the MX and the submarine-launched Trident II missiles. The Soviets are constantly improving their formidable antiaircraft defenses. That makes it harder for U.S. bombers, the airborne leg of the triad, to be sure of getting to their targets. That, in turn, makes it all the more important that the U.S. develop two types of weapons...
...were soon removed because they seemed redundant and excessively vulnerable, given the ability of the U.S. to hit any target in the U.S.S.R. with intercontinental ballistic missiles, bombers based in the U.S. and missiles launched from nuclear submarines. These weapons constituted the U.S.'s central, or strategic, arsenal?the triad. Then one of West Germany's brightest up-and-coming defense intellectuals and politicians, Helmut Schmidt, argued strenuously in the Bundestag that America's own deterrent of last resort constituted a nuclear umbrella of "extended deterrence" for Western Europe, sheltering NATO's first lines of defense on and around...
...still secret proposals. Indeed, in the White House there is the feeling that within the next couple of years the time will be right to reform health care and Social Security and to adopt a flat-rate income tax. There is even some muttering against the 20-year-old triad strategic-defense structure (bombers, land-based missiles, submarines). Reagan aides believe that in the future, high costs and new technology will induce the U.S. to concentrate more on submarines and to venture into space...