Word: tridents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...figures listed for the Trident missile-firing submarine raised suspicions. According to the S.A.R., the expected cost of the Trident program dropped a stunning $11.3 billion last quarter because only eight submarines, rather than 15, are now planned. Astonished journalists asked if the Navy had really slashed almost in half one of the nation's most important nuclear-deterrent programs. No, replied Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Joseph Kammerer: the seven missing submarines have been renamed Trident IIs and designated as a new program...
Weinberger used his briefing to stress the need for passing the Administration's 1984 defense budget intact. "Without the MX missile, the Trident submarine and the B-1 bomber, we will be accepting permanent nuclear inferiority," he said. Weinberger's campaign to win congressional approval for his spending plans will be long and difficult. At a meeting earlier in the week, Republican leaders of the Senate Budget Committee urged Weinberger to accept significant cuts. Chairman Pete Domenici of New Mexico has indicated that the proposed increase in spending of 10% after inflation may have to be sliced...
...well, though over a longer period, say 15 years, because of the long lead times. In that case, the submarines would have to be made smaller and less expensive. It would be too risky to put so many eggs in one basket, as is the case with the current Trident submarines, each of which carries 24 missiles. A new regimen would be required as well for heavy bombers...
...directed at ICBMS. It was thus unabashedly designed to squeeze the mostly land-based Soviet arsenal not just into something smaller, but into a different shape. At the same time, the proposal was neatly tailored to favor a revamped American deterrent featuring the MX missile on land and the Trident II at sea, both of which are still under development. The U.S., which has put much of its missile force aboard aircraft and submarines, is already below the proposal's limit of 2,500 land-based warheads for each side. The Soviets are well above that ceiling...
...cutting its land-based warheads in half, and its most potent ICBMs and its ballistic missile throw weight by two-thirds. But the Kremlin can then "buy" reductions in the menacing new weapon ry the U.S. intends to deploy later in the decade. For example, says Rowny, while the Trident II program will go forward in any event, the Soviets might face twice as many Trident II warheads without a START treaty...