Word: warheaded
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...neutron bomb, if only because a long delay might appear as backing down under Soviet disapproval. For once, if he proceeds, Giscard will have the backing of both his West German and U.S. allies. Pentagon sources feel that, if Western Europeans accept a French decision to make a neutron warhead, allied governments might be more willing eventually to accept the U.S. equivalent on their soil...
...naive, and as a politician who has demonstrated his inability to set a foreign policy course, stick by it and execute it. "Zigzag" and "flipflop" have become part of the scornful lexicon of European diplomats. Among the examples most often cited: Carter's push to have the neutron warhead deployed in Western Europe, winning the support of a reluctant Helmut Schmidt, only to postpone the project indefinitely; pressuring West Germany to reflate its economy and then dropping the notion; shocking Tokyo by announcing that U.S. forces were to be withdrawn from South Korea, only to backtrack later...
Although the nation's C.W. stockpile has declined only about 10% since Nixon's action of a decade ago, many of the arsenal's delivery systems are aging and deteriorating. Next year's proposed defense budget earmarks only $2 million for researching a chemical warhead for a multiple rocket launcher and $4.2 million for maintaining the current U.S. stock of war chemicals. Among them are 888 Weteye gravity bombs containing a nerve agent; last week the Pentagon announced that it will continue storing the weapons at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal near Denver despite protests from residents...
...still in the course of implementation. Just as in the interwar years, the German Reichswehr had developed a novel strategy for rapid breakthroughs of static defenses centered on the tank which the British had invented in World War I, so the Russians had taken over the U.S. developed nuclear warhead, fitted it onto the German-devised rocket, and formulated a fresh strategy in which, in violation of all the canons of traditional warfare, strategic objectives are to be secured in advance of tactical operations. I believe that we are as oblivious of these staggering innovations...
...Soviets' Strategic Rocket Forces have been converting single-warhead ICBM launchers into multiple-warhead ones so rapidly that the weapons will soon be approaching the SALT II ceiling of 820 MIRVed ICBMs. As early as this summer the Kremlin may face a decision whether to pull back or proceed in that conversion. Also, the Soviets might any day test an SS-18 heavy missile with 20 or more warheads. For them to do so would not only make a mockery out of the SALT II freeze on MIRVing, it would also jeopardize the U.S. mobile MX missile -which...