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...some years, the Soviets have been building up a sizable, potentially destabilizing advantage in land-based, highly accurate, highly destructive ballistic warheads. The U.S. is seeking to preserve a balance by modernizing the land-and sea-based legs of its strategic triad with the MX and the submarine-launched Trident II missiles. The Soviets are constantly improving their formidable antiaircraft defenses. That makes it harder for U.S. bombers, the airborne leg of the triad, to be sure of getting to their targets. That, in turn, makes it all the more important that the U.S. develop two types of weapons...
...closing Guernsey will look to the public sector for a solution to the crisis. "We will try to do some educating and lobbying aimed at city and state officials because they have the resources. "He criticized the government's fiscal priorities nothing that "what it cost to build one Trident submarine would run our shelter for 166,000 years...
...need of modernization," compared to Soviet forces. Actually, all soviet missiles except one type are fueled with liquid propellant, a volatile and dangerous substance scrapped by the U.S. decades ago. By comparison, American technology has in the last 15 years alone produced the multiple warheads reentry vehicle, the Trident submarine-launched missile, the air-launched Cruise missile and Mark 12 and 12A warheads (to be placed on the MX missile). And reliance on the much chastised B-52 intercontinental bomber ignores Soviet reliance on the Bear plane, which is also propeller-driven and just...
...weekly discussion group for this course focuses on civil disobedience, and on Good Friday the 14 students in the group joined forces with the Yale Divinity School and other Northeastern theological schools to stage a non-violent "witness" or vigil outside the Electric Boat Co, in Groton, Conn., where Trident submarines are manufactured. More than 30 students lashed their arms crucifix-style to the fence and were arrested, and four Harvard students were arrested for planting flowers outside a memorial to the individuals who gave money for the Trident project. Kim Harvie, a second year MDiv students...
...what way are they new? Rear Admiral Frank Kelso, director of the Navy's Strategic Submarine Division, was summoned to explain. The Trident II will carry a more advanced missile, he said, but otherwise "it's the same submarine." The expected cost of building all 15 Tridents, far from declining sharply, has risen $2.7 billion, to $31.1 billion, an increase of 9.5% in only three months...