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Are We Readying A First Strike?
Morland, Howard | March 16, 1985 issue

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The article discusses the strike capability of the United States on the Soviet Union. The article points out that those busy drafting the first-strike report must justify Ronald Reagan's, President of the United States' program to modernize U.S. strategic forces, "including specifically the MX missile, the D-5 Trident missile, and the small single-war-head missile. A U.S. first-strike capability would upset the nuclear balance and could provoke the United States to launch a pre-emptive strike. A U.S. first strike today would destroy less than one-third of the Soviet Union's land-based missile silos. INSET: FIRST-STRIKE CAPABILITIES..

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GUIDED missile silos; NUCLEAR weapons; WAR; ARMED Forces; UNITED States; SOVIET Union
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