Word: trident
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...budget of $305 billion by between $5 billion and $6 billion, largely by paring some defense and public-works spending. Inflation will make this difficult. Last week the Pentagon reported that the original cost estimates on 42 major weapons systems under development, notably the B-l bomber and the Trident submarine-missile system, have increased by a walloping $37 billion, and by $16 billion in the past three months alone. To fight inflation, budget cutting and tight money will probably remain the two keys of Administration policy...
...loud quarrel also appears to be developing over Pentagon purchases of an other important weapon, the Trident atomic-powered submarine. In July, the Navy ordered the first of the mammoth subs from General Dynamics' Electric Boat Division for $285.4 million, the highest price the Defense Department has ever paid for a single item. Last week Defense confirmed that it had acted over the objections of the Navy's director of procurement, Gordon W. Rule...
...would give the U.S. a better chance of destroying Soviet land-based ICBMS. A danger: this first-strike capacity could upset the nuclear balance in the same way that the Soviets would if they MlRVed all their SS-9s and SS-18s. Congress also approved continued development of the Trident missile submarine and the B-l strategic bomber...
Viet Nam Aid. With little debate, the Senate and House also approved the Pentagon's request for $1.9 billion for two Trident submarines. The Navy wants ten Tridents to start replacing the smaller, slower Polaris-Poseidon submarines by 1978. Both houses voted to continue the B-1 bomber program as well, though they disagreed on how much should be authorized for next year. The Air Force plans to buy 244 B-1s by 1980, at a cost of $15 billion, to replace the aging...
...what prompted such prodigious effort. In his bestseller Chariots of the Gods? (on which the movie is based), Science Fiction Writer Erich von Däniken says that the lines-which do, in fact, resemble airport runways-may have been landing strips for otherworldly visitors. A huge, cliffside trident, overlooking the nearby Bay of Pisco, may even have pointed the way to them, he says. But most scholars, including Reiche, flatly reject that farfetched idea; for one thing, no extraterrestrial artifacts have ever been found at the site. Scientific observers lean to a more down-to-earth explanation first proposed...