Word: warheaded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last-ditch attempt to find a home for the orphan MX missile, recommended the prompt deployment of 100 MX missiles in existing Minuteman silos and research on silo "hardening." For the long term, the panel proposed the development of an unspecified number of smaller (15-ton) single-warhead missiles with a range, like the MX's, of 8,000 miles...
...report argued that the highly accurate, nearly 100-ton MX, with ten warheads, is needed immediately to "remove the Soviet advantage in ICBM [intercontinental ballistic missile] capability" and goad Russia into serious arms-reduction negotiations. For the 1990s, however, the so-called Midgetman missile must be developed because, with one warhead to the MX's ten, it would make a less tempting target to the Soviets...
...enhance the two-phase plan on Capitol Hill and limit warhead totals, the commission wedded missile deployment to arms control. "The land-based ICBM cannot be preserved without arms control," said Commission Member John Deutch of M.I.T. "This was our truly unanimous view." However, the shift back to single-warhead missiles scrambles the prevailing mathematics of arms control. With this in mind, the commission recommended a different method of calculating strategic threats: counting the number of warheads and their size rather than the number of missiles possessed by each side. While the new math won prepublication plaudits from Pentagon officials...
...tantalizing new ideas for arms control: "de-MIRVing" schemes that would induce both sides to shift toward more survivable, less threatening, single-warhead missiles; plans that would require trading in two old warheads for every new one added; the notion of merging INF and START. But before bright ideas for the future can have a chance, the accomplishments of the past must be rescued from their current erosion and consolidated by being given the force...
There are said to be 351 Soviet SS-20s aimed at Western Europe, each of which has three warheads. In fact, it is only assumed that each missile has three warheads: it has been acknowledged that there is no real way to tell how many destructive weapons are inside each missile, although a 1980 West German intelligence report indicates that t significant number of the weapons have only one warhead, not three...