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...Warhead Gap. There is not, however, any limitation on improving existing ICBMS under the executive agreement. Thus the arms race is expected to turn to qualitative rather than quantitative efforts. U.S. experts estimate that it will take the Russians until the late '70s to develop and deploy MIRV missiles and thus close the warhead gap -if the U.S. stops further MIRV deployment. The U.S., meanwhile, is free to go ahead with advances like its ULMS longer-range submarine-launched missile system, which involves at least ten advanced subs with 24 missiles each. Both sides are expected to spend heavily...
...aftermath of the explosion of a Spartan warhead a mile below the surface of Amchitka Island, the world's environmentalists waited anxiously for the postoperative reports on what was surely one of the greatest shocks man had ever inflicted on his supportive earth. There were no earthquakes, no tidal waves. To date, it has been a case of no news being good news...
...test was necessary, the AEC maintained, to assure that the Spartan system would provide a "thin shield" defense against nuclear attack from the Chinese. Some scientists argued, however, that ABM policy and technology has left the Spartan system behind, and the AEC is testing a warhead that would never be used as designed...
...with Nixon's decision made, AEC Commissioner Schlesinger was firm: "The primary purposes of Cannikin are to proof-test the Spartan warhead . . . before large investment of funds is made on that component of the Safeguard system. Environmental damage has been exhaustively considered, and overriding requirements of national security have, of necessity, taken precedence...
...case, the Spartan warhead will be buried forever and lost. Not to worry. It only cost $200 million. And if anybody is concerned about just leaving it there, with all its potential nuclear power, it can be harmlessly destroyed by a small charge of TNT, which the AEC has already installed against just such a contingency...