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...Blue Devil was barely discernible among the mass of blue-clothed Duke fanatics. Only his distinctive blue tail, blue trident, and blue face distinguished him. He was hardly the devil Milton would have us believe exists...
...upgrading the nation's strategic arsenal of nuclear-equipped missiles, planes and submarines in order to improve the Administration's bargaining stance in the current SALT talks with the Soviet Union. Carter proposes, for example, to order the eighth submarine in the $21 billion-plus Trident program, in which costs have been shooting out of sight. He also calls for spending $237.5 million to continue development of the cruise missile system, which the Pentagon wants as a counterweight to the Soviet nuclear strike force...
McIntyre was an extremely cautious Senator, hesitating before opposing the White House even when it was in Republican hands. On the Armed Services Committee, he supported military aid to Saigon during the Viet Nam War. But he also favored trimming expensive new weapons programs like the Navy's Trident missile...
...surprise Soviet attack. For this reason there is little opposition to modernizing the strategic submarine fleet by building 14 Tridents, at a cost of about $1.2 billion each. The current budget, in fact, provides $2.9 billion for the Trident program...
...Even more startling are the cost overruns of new ships still in production. The projected price of a Trident missile-firing submarine, for example, has shot from $793 million to $1.2 billion in the past three years, while that of the Vinson nuclear-powered carrier has climbed from $973 million to $1.3 billion in five years...