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Tidy and appealing as such hypotheses may seem, enormous obstacles stand in the way of their becoming reality. For example, even on the point of a mutual moratorium on further MIRV testing there is disagreement within the Nixon Administration itself: the Pentagon strongly wants to press ahead with MIRV, while Gerard Smith, who has been designated the chief U.S. SALT negotiator, made it known last week that he thinks a MIRV test ban should be the first item of business with the Soviet Union. Secretary of State William Rogers put it mildly last week when he said: "There...
...nationwide committee of college newspaper editors and class presidents called this week for a one day "moratorium on 'business as usual'" at American universities this fall to protest the continuation of the war in Vietnam...
...there is no firm committment to an American withdrawal or a negotiated settlement on Oct. 15," the committee asks participants in the one day moratorium unions, and other groups for a longer moratorium in November. The process would continue until American policy in Vietnam is changed, the statement said...
...last week lined up 39 Senators of both parties as cosponsors of a "sense of the Senate" resolution urging a halt to testing-if the Russians reciprocate. Nixon espoused the Brooke position cautiously, saying that "only in the event that the Soviet Union and we could agree that a moratorium on tests could be mutually beneficial to us, would we be able to agree...
Warhead Nose Count. Unless such a moratorium is agreed to early in SALT, many experts believe, the chance of real progress toward arms limitation is small. If both the U.S. and the Soviet Union proceed to MIRV deployment, the ensuing uncertainty would make a freeze on nuclear weaponry almost impossible to achieve. Policing an agreement to regulate the number of warheads installed in missiles would not be feasible. Spy satellites can count launch vehicles, but not their contents. Even an inspector on the ground would have to take a missile nose cone apart and physically count the number of warheads...