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...long been surrounded by controversy over how it should be deployed. In underground trenches? Inside airplanes? Or moved around within a vast network of underground silos? Nor was there even agreement on the missile itself. One Administration faction favored a longer, heavier version of the proposed submarine-launched Trident II, which could be launched from either sea or land. Still others, worried about the estimated $30 billion cost of deploying the 200 proposed missiles, denounced all versions...
...Trident death monster," a flapping line of black plastic streamers, 300 demonstrators paraded down Cambridge's Broadway Avenue to the Charles Stark Draper Labs to protest that facility's involvement in developing guidance systems for nuclear missiles...
...front of the Draper facility near Kendall Square, demonstrators listened to Richard Proescher, who was recently fired from the General Dynamics Trident submarine manufacturing plant in Groton, Conn. for his anti-nuclear activities. Proescher said that conversion of weapons plants to peaceful uses would mean more jobs. "Weapons production is the least labor-intensive industry there is," Proescher told the crowd
...with a capacity to carry more warheads than allowed. The Soviets, however, claimed that the feints were merely intended to make it easier for the warheads to penetrate antiballistic missile defenses. To complicate matters, the U.S. had tested decoys of its own, and the Navy had designed the Trident I submarine-based missile to engage in almost exactly the sort of feints that the SS-18 had demonstrated. In the end, the U.S. negotiators insisted that release simulations above the maximum number of warheads allowed on a given type of missile would have to be distinguishable from the procedure used...
...cuts in public spending will be a Tory hallmark, this will not apply to defense. Thatcher wants to improve Britain's nuclear deterrent force, which currently consists of four British-built submarines carrying Polaris A-3 missiles. The Conservatives want to expand the fleet to six, each carrying advanced Trident missiles bought from the U.S. Thatcher is so concerned over growing Soviet power that Tory strategists have considered the formation of a joint U.S.-European fleet based on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean...