Word: warhead
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Would limit the increase in the defense budget to 4% to 5% a year. Would cancel the MX missile and B-1 bomber, replacing them with the mobile single-warhead ICBM and Stealth bomber. Would increase the readiness and mobility of conventional forces. Urges greater use of competitive contract bids by the Pentagon...
Supports a modified bilateral freeze on nuclear weapons, allowing some modernization. Wants to reduce those weapons that are most destabilizing, mainly multiple-warhead, land-based ICBMs. Would rely more on submarines and bombers and would develop a single-warhead mobile ICBM. Supports a modified build-down concept. Would seek ratification of SALT II. Urges the tightening of nonproliferation controls...
...Neither side shall have MIRVs (more than one warhead per mieslle). This reduce the chances of a first strike because it reduces the temptation to attack a concentration of warheads in one location. For example, let us assume that both Side A and Side B have ten missiles with four warheads per missile, for a total of forty warheads each. If two warheads are needed to destroy one missile silo, Side A can use half of its missiles (20 warheads) in order to destroy all of Side B's missiles. This would leave Side B totally defenseless and Side...
...accord, though their emphasis and rhetoric tend to highlight their differences. All of the candidates favor some land of freeze on nuclear arms. Cranston, McGovern and Hollings urge that the U.S. try such a freeze unilaterally to see if the Soviets go along. Askew would freeze the number of warheads and missiles and the total destructive power but permit modernization of weapons under these limits. All would hold real military spending increases to 3% or 6% a year, except McGovern, who would slash such spending by 25%, and Jackson, who would cut it by an unspecified amount. All would kill...
...world's trained political leadership through its K-School programs, is poised for world hegemony. If the government of the United States, Soviet Union, People's Republic of China and several strategically placed others do not surrender, Bok will make good his threat to set of the large nuclear warhead concealed within the tower of Memorial Church or the innumerable small ones inside the kiosk-disguised silos in the Yard...