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TODAY NUCLEAR WORLD The U.S., Russia, China, France and Britain possess missiles capable of delivering a nuclear warhead thousands of miles away. Emerging nuclear states such as North Korea, India and Pakistan have shorter-range missiles...
...play a role in history was exhilarating. The dark, gleaming, rocket-shaped kaiten meaning ?Turning the Course of Destiny?, was a converted torpedo-40 ft. in length and 4 ft. in diameter, at the mid-section, where the cockpit and control panels were located. The kaiten carried a warhead of 1 1/2 tons of TNT, with a force underwater sufficient to sink any ship during World...
...European zone." At first glance that looks like Reagan's zero option: no U.S. missiles in Western Europe (the U.S. is deploying 108 Pershing II ballistic and 464 Tomahawk cruise missiles in five countries); no Soviet missiles targeted on Western Europe (Moscow has more than 250 mobile, triple-warhead SS-20s in place). Up until last week, the Soviets insisted on keeping enough SS-20s (roughly 140) to equal the number of missiles in the independent British and French nuclear forces. Gorbachev apparently dropped that demand, though on the condition that Britain and France agree not to "build up" their...
...Secretary of State George Shultz, Reagan decided to scrap two American submarines to continue--for now--compliance with the unratified SALT II treaty. Yet to please Pentagon hard-liners, he set the stage for "proportionate responses" to alleged Soviet violations. Work will be accelerated on the small single-warhead mobile missile known as the Midgetman and on an advanced radar-evading cruise missile. He proposed a study of yet another new mobile missile, dubbed Mobileman, which would be about the size of the 78,000-lb. silo-based Minuteman...
Following our return to Washington, there was unanimous agreement among the Chiefs, the President and me that we must initiate action to expand our offensive forces. The cheapest way to do that was to develop MIRVs. By placing more than one warhead on each missile, the U.S. could increase the number of warheads far more cheaply than by building more missiles. But we recognized this was a very dangerous step--if the Soviets followed our lead, as we must assume they would, it would lead to a dramatic increase in the offensive forces of each side. We therefore concluded that...