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...decision was made by Richard Nixon himself, and it was a decision he did not expect to have to make. The whole thing seemed simple enough when it was proposed. The nation needed an anti-ballistic missile system, and its prime ingredient was the Spartan warhead, which is designed to destroy or neutralize incoming enemy warheads...
Since tests in the atmosphere were banned by international treaty, the new warhead would have to be tested underground. The choice fell on one of the world's most remote islands-Amchitka, near the end of Alaska's Aleutian chain-where AEC officials dug a shaft more than a mile deep, and proposed to lower the five-megaton Spartan warhead down to the bottom. All it cost was $200 million, and they anticipated no trouble...
...Warhead Cluster. Was there really a new Soviet ICBM to worry about? The White House said that Jackson was "very close" to right. The Pentagon confirmed that "we have detected some new ICBM construction in the Soviet Union-we are not sure exactly what it is or what the Soviet intentions are." Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the House Armed Services Committee that the Russians had initiated "a new ICBM-silo construction program -the silos are unlike any others they have previously constructed." One intelligence source claimed that the silos were bigger than...
...secrecy-shrouded Second Artillery Corps has come much later than outside experts originally expected. The Chinese successfully fired a nuclear-tipped missile with a range of up to 700 miles from their Shuangchengtzu test site in 1966, but after that, all they hit were problems-with guidance systems, with warhead miniaturization and with the Cultural Revolution. The program picked up again as the Cultural Revolution waned and as bloody battles with Soviet border forces began to break out along the Ussuri River in 1969. Last year's launching of a 381-lb. satellite, which could, among other things, broadcast...
...model of the Soviet S59 missile to illustrate your point that "the worrisome thing is that it's very large" and carries a payload "something like ten times" that of the considerably smaller U.S. Minuteman. What you said was undeniably true. Their missile can carry a 25-megaton warhead; or, if eventually tipped with in dependently targeted re-entry vehicles, it could carry three warheads of five megatons each. Our Minuteman carries a one-megaton warhead, or, as with the new Minuteman III, three warheads of lesser power...