Word: tridents
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...Trident submarine. The navy is spending $30 billion to build 12 of these 600-foot-long subs to hold one-third of the country's nuclear arsenal. For the price of a dozen Tridents, the navy could, according to some calculations, deploy 110 smaller, more maneuverable conventional submarines--many versions of which already exist to carry twice as many missiles and force the Soviets to locate nearly 10 times as many subs...
Lindsay said Draper, which he said gets three quarters of its income from defense-related contracts, designs and produces guidance systems for the Trident, Cruise, and MX missiles...
...Soviet Union (693). It is a well-trained force that is respected for its seamanship, flexibility and firepower. But it is due to shrink even more. The decision of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to strengthen Britain's nuclear deterrent by spending $14 billion for four Trident-armed submarines means that the navy will have to economize by reducing the overall size of its fleet. By 1985, 17 destroyers and frigates will have been taken out of commission, and as new surface units are built, others will be scrapped. The navy will lose 10,000 sailors of its complement...
...both houses of Congress last week, has already attracted 20 Senators and 143 Representatives as sponsors. "Will the time ever be more right?" asked Democratic Congressman Jonathan Bingham of New York. "Will the Russians stand still while we build the MX missile, the B-l bomber and the Trident submarine...
...made mineral that many people feel is already in all too abundant supply: plutonium, a uranium byproduct used in the manufacture of nuclear weapons. The Reagan defense budget calls for stepped-up production of the ground, sea-and air-launched cruise missile and the Navy's Trident II submarine-based missile, as well as deployment of the MX missile system. Most of these weapons will be tipped with nuclear warheads...