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According to the Commission we now have a large fleet of effective ballistic missile submarines, with the bigger and better Trident on the way. We have bombers capable of striking the Soviet Union and incapable of being completely knocked out by a first strike. The technology for a new smaller missile wouldn't be that much different from the 20 year old Minuteman, and there is no "emergency" to require anything further. If the President really wants "attainment of stability at the lowest possible level of forces," then his only reasons for supporting MX are automatic. The reflexes of "bigger...
...Pittsburgh's U:S. Steel Corp. had supplied high-pressure air flasks for Trident submarines under contracts that carried built-in profits of between 27% and 38%, according to both Rickover...
...Soviet Union, by agreeing to count warheads, trying to prevent modernization of the independent British and French nuclear forces? By the early 1990s, Britain plans to replace its 64 Polaris missiles with 32 U.S.-built Trident submarine-launched ballistic missiles with eight to ten independently targetable re-entry warheads each. The French, similarly, are in the process of replacing their 98 single-warhead missiles with weapons that can carry up to six warheads...
Electric Boat manufactures Trident nuclear submarines...
...American weapons-the MX, the Trident II, new bombers and cruise missiles-would all be canceled by a freeze, while the Soviet offensive inventory and defensive network would not be affected...