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Without much technological difficulty, the Russians could cram more warheads on their larger ICBMs, within several years being thus able to approximately triple the 6000 ICBM warhead ceiling fixed in SALT II. Similarly, without a SALT constraint, the Russians could double the number of warheads on t...

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Published inThe Boston globe
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Boston, Mass Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC 16.05.1980
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Gromyko, Andrei
Muskie, Edmund
WASHINGTON
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Summary:Without much technological difficulty, the Russians could cram more warheads on their larger ICBMs, within several years being thus able to approximately triple the 6000 ICBM warhead ceiling fixed in SALT II. Similarly, without a SALT constraint, the Russians could double the number of warheads on their submarine-based missiles by upgrading part of the force with multiple warhead missiles (beyond the 350 such weapons allowed in the treaty). Ditto a totally new long-range Soviet bomber which is expected to enter the inventory in 1983. And presumably, in such a climate, there would be temptations to go for a major antimissile missile deployment. Those who have done some advance planning say the US could double production of low-flying, very accurate cruise missiles, double also the production of 4000-mile Trident I submarine-based missiles, accelerate the development of an even more accurate 6000- mile Trident II missile, accelerate work on a new long-range bomber, construct additional silos in Minuteman missile fields and start shuttling some of those ICBMs around in a confusing shell game, and consider anti-missile missiles to protect the MX when it comes into play.
ISSN:0743-1791