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...chief foreign affairs adviser, Henry Kissinger, who is dubious of the safety of an interim MIRV ban. Kissinger maintains that the U.S., once committed, might be trapped in an unenforceable, open-ended moratorium by the pressures of domestic and foreign opinion. After a special two-hour pre-SALT session of the National Security Council last week, Nixon noted that his eventual decision will prove "tremendously important" to the security of "hundreds of millions of Americans and Russians...
...Affairs Writer Anatoly Khlebnikov argued recently that "the further stage of the arms race has already been determined" by Nixon's missile policy. He did speculate, however, that the U.S. might be continuing to develop its multiple-warhead weapons in an attempt to gain a "favorable position" at SALT. The Kremlin, for that matter, has done exactly the same thing. Only two weeks ago, the Soviet Strategic Missile Forces completed the latest tests in the northwest Pacific on the huge S59 rocket, which can carry three five-megaton warheads (making them perhaps 25 times more powerful than those carried...
Rough Standoff. While MIRV development is the single most pressing issue, SALT negotiators will be discussing the whole range of strategic weapons. What makes this task so difficult is that while each nation apparently feels that it has achieved parity with the other, their arsenals differ in important ways. The Soviets, for example, have more (an estimated 1,350) and larger land-based intercontinental missile launchers than the U.S. (1,054), but America's Minutemen are more accurate. With 41 submarines carrying 16 Polaris missiles each, the U.S. has about three times as much sub-launched missile capability...
Perhaps the most important challenge at SALT is an arrangement on anti-ballistic missiles. To a large degree, it was the appearance of that defensive system, designed to knock out enemy missiles before they reach their targets, that prompted the development of multiple warheads. MIRVed missiles, which the U.S. plans to start deploying in June, increase the chance of penetrating an enemy ABM shield. Thus, nothing would curb each side's need for MIRVs as much as an agreement that limits ABMs. The Soviet Union presently leads in the deployment of ABMs, though few experts consider its 64-silo...
...work in a mental hospital at Bundoora, near Melbourne, concentrating on possible biochemical differences be tween the manic and depressive phases of the same patient. Nothing was farther from his mind than lithium, which had been discredited as a hypnotic and again in 1949 as a substitute for table salt. "One can hardly imagine," says Cade, "a less propitious year," especially as the work was being done "by an unknown psychiatrist, in a small hospital, with no research training, primitive techniques and negligible equipment...