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Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger has stressed the country's need to develop increasingly effective warheads and "modernize our tactical nuclear weapons." Testing is also necessary to develop systems like the nuclear- generated X-ray laser, which may prove critical to the President's Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars. In addition, Weinberger's deputy Richard Perle points out that testing more precise warheads has allowed the U.S. to reduce its overall megatonnage by 75% in the past two decades. "That," says Perle, "makes for a far safer and more stable world." Supporters of a ban counter that it would...
...reduce the vulnerability of their nearly 1,400 land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, the heart of their nuclear arsenal. By the mid-1990s, these weapons will be either ensconced in "superhardened" underground silos or based on mobile platforms that are difficult to locate and target. Even the large, multiple-warhead SS-X-24 missile, says SMP, will be deployed first on mobile rail cars, possibly by late this year. The U.S. has only been studying the possibility of developing a mobile missile, the single-warhead Midgetman...
...book contends that the Soviets have deployed more than 70 SS-25 missiles, a mobile system armed with a single warhead. The rapid deployment of these weapons, begun only last year, is particularly galling to the Reagan Administration, which considers them a violation of the 1979 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks agreement. That treaty, which the U.S. never has ratified but has agreed to observe, permits each side to develop only one new ICBM. Washington charges that the SS-25 is the Soviets' second (the first was the SS-X-24), while Moscow counts it as merely an updated version...
...poor test performance, succeeded in twice disabling a Libyan SA-5 radar station. Fired from the wing of a Navy A-7 Corsair jet, the missile homed in on signals emanating from the radar. A 14-ft.-long, 800-lb. weapon, HARM carries a 46-lb. high-explosive warhead over a range of about 40 miles. The Libyan radar resumed operations within hours of both attacks, but during a full-fledged battle, that would allow time for U.S. bombers to knock out the missile launchers...
...other naval "targets" with uncertain results. Designed initially as a surface-to-surface weapon, it scored one of its kills from an A-6 Intruder jet equipped to carry it. The 15-ft. missiles skim the waterline at 600 m.p.h. and smack into the target with a 500-lb. warhead. Powered by a small jet engine, the Harpoon has a range of some 50 miles...