Word: warhead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chips" in arms-control negotiations--a tactic that more often than not spurred Soviet efforts at developing similar weapons rather than mutual reductions at the negotiating table. Moreover, such bargaining chips frequently survive arms control negotiations and grow into full-fledged components of America's defense system: the MIRVed warhead that originally was justified as a bargaining chip now is a familiar element of America's nuclear arsenal. A more effective signal of restraint to the Soviets would be a decision not to proceed at all with the procurement of these new weapons systems, or at least to impose...
...battery that you can buy on the open market. Had we known it would cause problems, we would have used our own." In any case, the Israelis argue -and U.S. experts agree-that the Shafrir is actually a better weapon than the Sidewinder, principally because it uses a bigger warhead and a longer-burning propellant charge...
FOUR DAYS PRIOR to the Texas primary, Ford authorized continued production of the Minuteman missile--including a new warhead for the missile--to the tune of nearly $380 million. Three months earlier, the Defense Department had discontinued Minuteman production, reporting that additional missile deployment would add little to national security and was in any case not worth the cost...
...Soviet numerical superiority. No one could quarrel with that aim-indeed, it is a basic premise of U.S. strategy. But Reagan went on to suggest using the cruise missile to counter Soviet tanks. Still under development, the cruise missile is no battlefield weapon; armed with a nuclear or conventional warhead, it will be launched from aircraft or naval vessels against strategic targets up to 2,000 miles away...
Curiously, the century that produced the nuclear warhead has not developed a new kind of horror story. Even the tyrannical computers and the Things from Outer Space were foreseen by H.G. Wells and others. What has changed is the technology that transmits the frisson. The shudders that came in books now emanate from screens. But the stories are essentially Victorian or gothic. Lon Chancy dominated the horror market of the '20s playing 19th century monsters like the Hunchback of Notre Dame and the Phantom of the Opera. Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, the superstars of horror...