Word: tridents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book argues that many of the proposed weapons systems in the Reagan military buildup are redundant. The Pentagon does not need the land-based MX missile, say the Brookings experts, when it also plans to have the submarine-based Trident D-5 aimed at Soviet targets. Also high on the hit list are the B-1B bomber, the AH-64 attack helicopter and the F-15 fighter. By Brookings estimates, the Government could carve $46 billion out of the defense budget by 1989 without threatening national security...
...American promise to scale back in the future. In addition to demanding drastic, one-sided cuts in Soviet forces, the proposal left the U.S. free to proceed, albeit at a somewhat reduced level, with a number of new programs that greatly worried Moscow: the MX intercontinental missile, the Trident II submarine missile and a variety of cruise missiles. Thus to reach a bottom line of equality, the Soviets had to subtract, while the U.S. could add. A proposal based on such arithmetic, even as adjusted late last year under pressure from Congress, was simply nonnegotiable with the Soviets...
Despite noted increases in body radiation content among the Micronese from nuclear testing, the United States government continues testing nuclear weaponry and delivery systems in the area. Virtually all of the U.S. inter-continental ballistic missiles, including the Polaris, Minutemen and Trident, have been tested at the Kwajalein Missiles Range in Micronesia...
...Vandenberg has also been the takeoff point for such missiles as the Minuteman and Trident. SLC 6 will be the sixth active launch pad at the base...
...Immediate bilateral freeze. This includes testing, production and deployment of any nuclear device. This would terminate the MX missile and Trident, but it would also eliminate all future Soviet nuclear weapons. If it is true that the Soviets are embarking on a massive buildup this is the easiest and safest way to stop...