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...first rabbit out of his hat was his agreement to cut strategic nuclear warheads on each side to between 3,000 and 3,500 -- about a third of their present levels -- over the next 10 years. The reductions are as dramatic as the way they will be carried out: both sides will abandon outright their land- based multiple-warhead ballistic missiles...
...stumbling block is U.S. insistence that the Russians scrap their entire post-START arsenal of 154 land-based SS-18 missiles, each of which carries 10 warheads. Yeltsin demands as a quid pro quo that the U.S. dismantle its fleet of multiple-warhead Trident submarine-based missiles. After a final meeting with U.S. Secretary of State James Baker, Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev reported "good progress" but added that "the rest will depend on our Presidents...
...WHAT AMOUNTS TO AN OBSCENE GESTURE TO THE rest of the world, China exploded a nuclear warhead with a yield of 1 million tons of tnt at its underground test range in far northwestern Xinjiang province. It was the largest such blast the Chinese have ever detonated and far bigger than the 150-kiloton testing limit the U.S. and the former Soviet Union have been observing under a 1974 agreement...
Steven Hildreth, a Congressional Research Service defense specialist, told the House Government Operations Committee that the Army's 1991 data would support a claim of only "one warhead kill." Under fire, Major General Jay Garner confirmed that the Army, in a revised study, was dropping its kill claims from more than 80% in Saudi Arabia to 70%, and from 50% in Israel to 40%. The Army's about-face represented a victory for M.I.T. professor Ted Postol, who triggered the inquiry by pointing out that even such nonexperts as careful cnn watchers could tell that some of the Patriots' alleged...
Until last Friday it was U.S. policy to redress this imbalance in two ways: through negotiations, like the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), that whittled away the Soviet advantage; and by developing America's own large, heavily MIRVed land-based missile, the 10-warhead MX. Bush said in effect, Let's go straight to the bottom line, which is zero; let's agree to eliminate MIRVed ICBMs altogether...