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Subject: Re: BTL Takes the Lead - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 20-Nov-83 15:46:00 EST
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uiuccsb!eich    Nov 16 18:36:00 1983


Though it's kind of inconvenient for your argument, the MX is
not yet here but the SS-18 has been for quite a while (up to
model 4 now...).  This missile, with up to 10 MIRVS, was developed
during the heyday of detente, the time of such nonsense as the
Apollo-Soyuz linkup and the continuation of McNamara's 1967 freeze
on new strategic land-based missile programs (unilateral, needless
to say).  Some Freeze (the new one) advocates unwisely but plaintively
point to the Soviet's over-reliance on land-based missiles as a good
reason for the Russians to reject START.  It's also a good reason to
suspect that they a trying for strategic superiority, since these
missiles hard-target, and that's not deterrence.