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...This system, estimated to cost more than $30 billion for the multiple-warhead nuclear missile alone, has been in trouble on the Hill because the weapons will be vulnerable to Soviet attack unless the Administration can figure out how to base them safely. Last week Ronald Reagan reversed course again and said that it was not economically or strategically feasible to "superharden" the concrete of old Minuteman silos, which are to be the temporary base of the first 40 missiles. If Congress decides not to buy any MXs until it knows where to put them, $1.4 billion...
...REAGAN ADMINISTRATION'S many intolerances, few are so pronounced as its distaste for ambiguity. In foreign affairs, it has tried to resurrect an American century that never was, promising to match the Soviet Union missile for missile and warhead for warhead, while renewing the Cold War in the mountains of Central America and the deserts of southwest Asia...
Missing from Reagan's recommendations on improving land-based forces is an effective low-cost ballistic missile defense of the 1000 Miniteman silos, a much easier job than defending 100 high-value MX silos. This defense against Soviet warheads can be achieved by the use of buried nuclear explosives to throw up debris that destroys incoming warheads, by the "SWARMJET" system of launching a shotgun blast of 10,000 small unguided raockets at each warhead as it approaches the target silo. Perhaps now that the deceptive basing scheme is out of the way, real effort can be applied to analyze...
...Soviet missiles are more of a mixed bag. The clumsy, inaccurate SS-4, first deployed in 1959, has a range of 1,200 miles and a single, one-megaton warhead. The obsolescent SS-5 can throw its megaton warhead some 2,500 miles. But the SS-20, with its 3,000-mile range, is a formidable weapon. Each of its three, separately targetable 150-kiloton warheads is accurate within...
Mitterrand has made several pro-missile pronouncements calculated to shore up Helmut Schmidt. In addition, continuing a policy begun by former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Mitterrand is modernizing France's nuclear forces. Its submarine fleet, which will number seven by 1990, is being equipped with multiple-warhead M-4 missiles, and the 35 Mirage IV strategic bombers will receive new air-to-ground missiles...