Word: triads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...potential of nuclear power at sea and who tugged and cajoled a reluctant Navy to develop and install reactors in submarines. Today "the silent service" fostered by Rickover is the foundation of U.S. sea power, and missile-launching subs make up the least vulnerable leg of the U.S. strategic triad...
Midgetman is intended to join the land-based leg of America's nuclear triad, which includes bombers and missile-firing submarines...
...also hinted at some new flexibility on strategic weapons. Only a month ago they were insisting that no new weapons be added to either nation's strategic arsenal. But now the Soviets have indicated that they might agree to one additional new weapon in each leg of the strategic triad (land-based, seabased and airborne), which would allow the U.S. to proceed with its modernization program...
...World War II cruiser, yet it glides under the surface at speeds of more than 25 knots (comparable land speed: 28.7 m.p.h.) and is capable of operating at depths considerably greater than the 600 ft. to which Navy sources admit. Tridents carry the single most devastating element of the Triad. Stowed inside tubes that cut like shafts through the Jackson's four decks are 24 Trident I C-4 missiles, each carrying up to ten nuclear warheads, every one of them with a yield of 100 kilotons and capable of destroying a midsize Soviet city. With a range of more...
Though some strategists urge the U.S. to place more emphasis on its Trident fleet at the expense of both the land-based and airborne parts of its nuclear arsenal, no leading strategist would eliminate any one of the Triad's legs. "There are no practical alternatives," says Vice Admiral Ron Thunman, who heads the Navy's submarine program. Robert Komer, a former Pentagon official, says, "It's just the natural balance of power and threat...