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...cuts in existing nuclear arsenals is no easy answer to the nuclear nightmare. They point out that the "wrong kind" of reductions in superpower arsenals could increase nuclear instability and that deep cuts are only helpful if the "most destabilizing" nuclear weapons systems are reduced first, such as multiple-warhead missiles. By contrast, it would make no sense to reduce the number of missile-bearing U.S. submarines by 50%: "Fewer than ten submarines [the estimated number that would then remain on active patrol at any one time] would have to be tracked and destroyed for a successful surprise attack against...
Reagan has called the recommendation a "desirable evolution to ward small, single warhead ICBMs" it may have been MX that ensured the White House would take Midgetman and the other points seriously. But the giant ICBM will dominate the years between now and any deployment of a smaller weapon probably in the mid 1990s...
When Congress last year killed the dense pack basing plan for the MX, the 96-ton ten-warhead missile seemed permanently grounded. Then the blue-ribbon Scowcroft Commission recommended last month that the U.S. develop a smaller, possibly mobile, single-warhead Midgetman missile. In the meantime, the commission suggested, the U.S. should demonstrate its political will by placing 100 MX missiles in existing Minuteman silos, even though these sites might be vulnerable to attack. Key members of Congress wanted the Midgetman, as well as a more flexible approach to arms control. President Reagan wanted the MX and was willing...
...letter went to nine House Democrats who wanted both super powers gradually to reduce reliance on multiple independently targetable (MIRVed) missiles. These missiles are considered destabilizing because they are tempting first-strike targets. The reason: it takes only one incoming warhead to knock out a Hydraheaded missile on the ground. If each side deployed only single-warhead missiles, there would be more targets, and each incoming warhead could hit only one enemy warhead at a time...
...reply, Reagan said he "wholeheartedly" endorsed the single-warhead concept, but he was vague about how he planned to incorporate it into his arms-control policy. He wrote: "We are conducting a review of our START proposal with the intention of developing such modifications as are necessary to reflect the commission's approach...