Word: warhead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tantalizing new ideas for arms control: "de-MIRVing" schemes that would induce both sides to shift toward more survivable, less threatening, single-warhead missiles; plans that would require trading in two old warheads for every new one added; the notion of merging INF and START. But before bright ideas for the future can have a chance, the accomplishments of the past must be rescued from their current erosion and consolidated by being given the force...
There are said to be 351 Soviet SS-20s aimed at Western Europe, each of which has three warheads. In fact, it is only assumed that each missile has three warheads: it has been acknowledged that there is no real way to tell how many destructive weapons are inside each missile, although a 1980 West German intelligence report indicates that t significant number of the weapons have only one warhead, not three...
...across the country but also by satellite to Europe, he announced on Wednesday morning that the U.S. is now prepared to negotiate an "interim solution" to the problem of medium-range nuclear-tipped missiles in Europe. If the Soviets would dismantle a significant number of their 351 modern, triple-warhead SS-20s, Washington would reduce the number of American missiles, capable of hitting the U.S.S.R., that it is scheduled to station in Western Europe beginning in December. Instead of deploying the 572 single-warhead Pershing II and cruise missiles now planned, the U.S. would install only enough to match...
American officials readily concede that if they cannot prompt a new Soviet proposal, U.S. Negotiator Paul Nitze will have to fill in some numbers on warhead limits to keep the talks from completely stalling. But the almost universal expectation is that the Soviets will not seriously negotiate until just before the U.S. missiles begin going into Western Europe and perhaps not until after deployment has actually started. The reason: the Kremlin must first be convinced that demonstrations by the European antinuclear movement will not be strong enough to block the installation of the U.S. missiles. In other words, Moscow...
...subatomic particles, bursting down from the heavens like a Jovian lightning bolt. The beam homes in on the ascending missile and fastens onto its nose cone. Burning through, the beam turns the electronic guidance system into silicon mush, sending the missile wobbling off course and totally immobilizing its nuclear warhead. As it plunges back into the atmosphere, no longer protected by the nose cone, most of the missile incinerates in the sizzling heat of reentry. Only a few harmless fragments reach the ground...