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...Republic calls their product "one of the most serious and sophisticated official documents of the nuclear era." The members of the Commission made three basic recommendations. Discard the notion of U.S. strategic inferiority by considering simultaneously bombers, missiles and submarines, deploy 100 MXs, each with 10 warheads, in hardened Minuteman silos, and for the future, move away from Multiple. Independent Re entry Vehicles (MIRVs) towards a small, single warhead missile appropriately dubbed "Midgetman...
...prevent it from acting on the more nearly solutions Scowcroft had to offer. After essentially reducing the MX to sugar for its recommendations, the Commission introduced a final pill which shouldn't be hard to swallow at all. The pill is Midgetman, a small, mobile missile with a single warhead that could be produced in large numbers, if needed, at relatively low cost. Such a non-threatening, land-based ICBM follows naturally from the Commission's argument that the "window of vulnerability" was never open in the first place. And of course, the real selling point of the little missile...
...into the negotiations as an effort to divide the alliance. Said U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle: "All the Soviet proposals have had one common characteristic-they would leave the U.S. with zero nuclear forces in Europe, and they would leave the Soviet Union with thousands of nuclear warheads on Soviet missiles." In the NATO view, a failure by the U.S. to counter the 243 triple-warhead SS-20s now aimed at Western Europe would "decouple" the U.S. and its West European allies by indicating that the U.S. would no longer risk its own cities for the defense...
...Soviet Union, by agreeing to count warheads, trying to prevent modernization of the independent British and French nuclear forces? By the early 1990s, Britain plans to replace its 64 Polaris missiles with 32 U.S.-built Trident submarine-launched ballistic missiles with eight to ten independently targetable re-entry warheads each. The French, similarly, are in the process of replacing their 98 single-warhead missiles with weapons that can carry up to six warheads...
...fact, when they are lined up nuke for nuke beside the vast arsenals held by both the U.S. and the Soviet Union, the British and French missiles do not seem worth counting. France's force de frappe consists of five nuclear-powered submarines, each equipped with 16 single-warhead missiles, and 18 land-based missiles. Their range: no more than 1,800 miles, barely enough to reach Moscow. Britain relies on four nuclear submarines, each armed with 16 Polaris missiles. Says former French Ambassador to NATO François de Rose: "The number we have now is immaterial compared...