Word: bomber
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...occasionally their differences) on any number of timely strategic issues. Most notably, they back the deployment of new NATO missiles in Europe, oppose a blanket "no first use" policy, and split on the construction of the MX missile. They also urge a partial nuclear freeze, oppose the B-1 bomber, and expose developing anti-ballistic weapons that could violate the 1972 SALTI accord...
...book by six Harvard specialists on nuclear weapons policy supports a partial nuclear freeze, backs deployment of new NATO missiles in Europe and opposes the B-1 bomber, but reaches no conclusions on the proposed construction of the MX missile...
They call the B-1 bomber, which Reagan has placed at the top of his defense budget request list, "an unnecessary expenditure," arguing that existing B-52 planes can be updated to meet U.S. defense needs...
...Hanoi, the capital, the memories of war are cherished in details large and small. At the War Museum, a once stately mansion located near the Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, visitors gaze upon such relics as the ID cards of captured American pilots, pieces from a downed U.S. B-52 bomber, and the T-54 tank that first breached the gates of Nguyen Van Thieu's Independence Palace in Saigon in 1975. At a nearby carnival, the most popular game is the beanbag toss, in which gleeful children win pieces of candy by pelting a plywood figure of Uncle...
...highly destructive ballistic warheads. The U.S. is seeking to preserve a balance by modernizing the land-and sea-based legs of its strategic triad with the MX and the submarine-launched Trident II missiles. The Soviets are constantly improving their formidable antiaircraft defenses. That makes it harder for U.S. bombers, the airborne leg of the triad, to be sure of getting to their targets. That, in turn, makes it all the more important that the U.S. develop two types of weapons: a new, faster, "penetrating" bomber, like the B-1 or Stealth; and cruise missiles, which can sneak in under...