Word: warhead
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What gives the Soviets this ability is the greater power of their rockets. The S59 and the new SS-18 have "throw-weights" capable of launching warheads packing 25 megatons, equal to 25 million tons of TNT. The most powerful U.S. rocket, the aging Titan 2 (of which 54 are still in operation), can accommodate only a ten-megaton warhead...
...major debate this year was over one of the smallest items: a request for $77 million. It will finance research to increase the accuracy and yield of the U.S.'s 550 nuclear-tipped Minuteman III missiles and develop a highly accurate MARV (maneuverable re-entry vehicle) warhead that can change direction to elude defensive missiles...
...room to have a cigarette. Dozens of other witnesses, including Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin, then commander in chief of Soviet missile forces, were burned to death. Despite these early failures, Khrushchev notes that "thanks to Comrade Korolyov and his associates, we now had a rocket that could carry a nuclear warhead." The Semyorka, Khrushchev adds, paved the Soviet road into outer space...
Last week's discussions were aimed at extending the 1972 agreement into the field of multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicles - clusters of nuclear warheads that can be fired together but aimed separately. The U.S. still leads the Soviets in MIRV technology and total number of warheads, while the Soviets have a strong edge in throw weight, or the ultimate explosive force that its larger missiles can land on a target. The aim was to find a formula for what U.S. negotiators call "essential equivalence." The U.S. wants to set a limit on the total payload carried by land...
...SALT II, or a continuation of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. Since the signing in May 1972 of the SALT I agreement, which limits offensive weapons and anti-ballistic missiles, the Soviets have tested four new intercontinental ballistic missiles and have developed their first submarine-launched multiple warhead missile. The Pentagon, meanwhile, as part of a record $85.8 billion budget request, included items to improve missile accuracy, guidance and control that are also meant to prod the Soviets into a formula for "essential equivalence" in missiles and payloads. At a predeparture press conference in Washington last week, Kissinger indicated that...