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Examples: in addition to the general ceilings unveiled at Eureka, there is now a specific requirement that the Soviets dismantle two-thirds of their cherished heavy ICBMs; an insistence that the Backfire bomber, exempted from SALT II, now count as an intercontinental weapon; and a stipulation that the Soviet Union reduce by 64% the total lifting power, or throw weight, of its missile force. This last was originally a goal for the dimly defined second phase of START. Now it has in effect been moved into the first phase...
...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...
...comparison, American technology has in the last 15 years alone produced the multiple warheads reentry vehicle, the Trident submarine-launched missile, the air-launched Cruise missile and Mark 12 and 12A warheads (to be placed on the MX missile). And reliance on the much chastised B-52 intercontinental bomber ignores Soviet reliance on the Bear plane, which is also propeller-driven and just...
...Democrats, and exceeded that of other President aspirants Sen. Allen Cranston (D-Calif.), Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio), Sen. Ernest F. Hollings (D-S.C.), and Sen. Dale Bumpers (D-Ark.). Indeed, Hart is the only one in this group who opposed both draft registration and the B-I bomber under the Carter Administration, and who voted consistently against the Reagan tax cuts and budget. (Bumpers, Glenn, and Hollings voted for the budget. Cranston and Glenn voted...
...coming to your town; it may even be there now. Look around. Hooded sweatshirts and cockeyed caps, leather bomber jackets and sheepskin coats heavy enough to bench press. Pristine white sneakers-"kicks" to you, Jim-laced up with byzantine complexity; luxury-label cords and knife-creased jeans; burnished belt buckles that might be police state special issue. Could be the population of the local high school, right? Standard teen-age uniform, right? You're whacked. Look closer, and start uptown. Def thrives at that address...