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...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...
Most destructive of all, Moscow continued its relentless piling up of arms. In 1977 the Kremlin started emplacing mobile, accurate, triple-warhead SS-20 nuclear missiles in the Far East and in the western U.S.S.R.; those in Europe vastly increased the destructive power aimed at U.S. NATO allies. The SS-20s were supposedly intended to counter the threat posed to Moscow by British and French nuclear weapons, but by the end of 1978 they already exceeded the British and French forces in the number of warheads...
Burt developed a plan that would permit 300 warheads on each side: 100 triple-warhead Soviet SS-20s throughout the U.S.S.R. against a mixed force for NATO of 300 Pershing Us and cruise missiles. But National Security Adviser Clark favored "hanging tough on zero," and Weinberger said, "We don't want it to look as though we're letting the West German left push us around...