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...worked closely with Wernher von Braun, the father of modern rocketry, to design the Nazis' V-2 rocket booster, then became a passionately loyal American cit izen after the German surrender. In the 1950s he worked on the Army's first missile capable of carrying and delivering a nuclear warhead, the Redstone...
...U.S.S.R. would have to reduce their overall nuclear arsenals by 45% by 1996. The key to the plan is a new unit of destructive power called Standard Weapons Station (SWS), which was developed by retired Air Force Lieut. General Glenn Kent. In its simplest form, an SWS represents a warhead atop a ballistic missile, a bomb on a plane, a self-propelled cruise missile. Kent's plan includes complex formulas so that oversize warheads count extra. So do multiple warheads that are clustered on top of missiles with particularly powerful lifting capability, known as "throw-weight." The details...
...have about 16,000 SWS's. To help it get down to 8,500 SWS's by 1996, the U.S. could replace its current 1,045 land-based missiles (2,565 SWS's) with 100 MX missiles (1,000 SWS's) and 500 single-warhead Midgetman missiles (another 500 SWS's). The Soviets could, if they wanted, keep 300 of their SS-18 missiles (6,150 SWS's) and fill the remainder of their quota with bombers and sea-launched missiles. But the goal is to penalize retention of such large weapons and move...
...crucial win for the Administration, which plans to deploy the 96-ton, ten-warhead missiles in modified Minuteman silos in 1986. "We need the MX," President Reagan urged Congress in a letter, "not only for force modernization but to keep the Soviets moving at the negotiation tables." Expected Senate approval of the funding was held up by a filibuster by Democrat Gary Hart of Colorado, a presidential candidate, who lambasted the missile as a "vulnerable, destabilizing, first-strike weapon...
...filled in some numbers on the limits they would accept on particular categories of nuclear weapons in order to carry out a 20% cut in overall numbers of missiles and bombers that they had proposed earlier. Key figure: the U.S.S.R. would reduce its force of intercontinental land-based, multiple-warhead missiles to 700, from the 820 it is permitted under the unratified SALT II treaty...