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...SALT II, each side will be allowed a maximum of 820 land-based, MiRVed rockets, and the two countries must agree in advance which are to be counted as MIRVs. From time to time the Soviets have hinted darkly that they were having difficulty distinguishing the 450 U.S. single-warhead Minuteman IIs from the 550 MiRVed Minuteman IIIs. For months they were silent on the issue, but they recently brought it up again, probably for bargaining leverage on other issues. What especially irritated the U.S. negotiators was that Moscow had previously implied that it had adequate means of determining...
SALT II also gets aggregate sublimits on multiple warhead or MIRVed systems, thus seeking to cap the rising number of warheads on both sides. The U.S. currently fields about 10,000, the Soviets 5000; under SALT II these numbers might rise to 12,000 and 7500 respectively, still extraordinary nuclear power...
...should be possible to reduce the 5000 to 7000 ready 40-kiloton warheads now on our recommended 31 boats down to one warhead per missle, 16 tubes per boat, for a total of 496 warheads. This is an adequate deterrent. It would still guarantee about 40 equivalent megatons delivered-more than a third of Soviet industry at once, with the probably prompt death of 15 to 20 million people. We say nothing of the raging fires, the confire mated lands, the burned and injured, the epidemic of tumors, the dearth of food and fuel and shelter in the winter...
...defense spending gap is most dramatically reflected in what has been happening to the superpowers' nuclear arsenals. Since 1967 the U.S. has deployed only one new intercontinental ballistic missile, the triple-warhead Minuteman III. During the same period, Moscow has introduced three generations of new ICBMs. Even the dovish Brookings Institution has admitted that it finds the Soviet buildup worrisome...
This friendly host then surprised his guests by disclosing that the U.S.S.R. had tested a neutron warhead "many years ago [but] never started production." U.S. experts agree that the Soviets have the ability to develop such a weapon, but there is no way to confirm tests because they would have been held underground. The Carter Administration is still considering whether the U.S. will produce neutron warheads; they could provide NATO with a devastating defense against Soviet tank attacks. It is perhaps for this reason that Moscow has been waging a worldwide propaganda campaign against U.S. development of the weapon. Brezhnev...