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ord wcapons Cruise missile, can rom bialics. SuO- through ell Cruise par- systems, suited for strike because it is etected by radar. curster of individually targeted carrying based in West missiles are to be based in From there they could hit Soviet targets in as little as four minutes compared to the 30 or more minutes it would take a missile launched from the US to reach the Soviet Union. This obviously increases the Pentagon's ability to launch a surprise attack against the USSR.
agreeing or 572 Cruise. ment of a total Pershing Il missiles europe the first European-based missiles that can hit the Soviet Union - Ihe Pentagon's European allies are helping Washington implement its first strike strategy against the Soviet Union.
It should be noted that although these weapons will be on European soil, they will remain under the sole command of the US military, to be used the governell In addition to the MX, Trident II, Cruise, and Pershing II systems, the Pentagon is also hard at work on other weapons improve capability. Plans for the Stealth for example, were revealed by Carter during his unsuccessful re-election camThe Stealth bomber is being to be invisible to Once it sneaks No comment 'WHILE desi (the pressure of the blast wuve several iniles from a raciear explocion) is not enough to of 180 miph would create ata: collisions ber ween people and rearty objects.' From 'Ine ajjecis uf Nuclear War by the Offic?
Tech Holegy Assessmeni 01 te congress Of ite initer Sintes, publishen by Soviet defence it could either drop bombs on its intended targets or launch Cruise missiles from a considerable distance away.
Right now 'military planners believe that 75 per cent o the B-52's in an attacl : could get rough Soviet defense 2 Februa York Times reported. But that's not good enough for the Pentagon.
The development neutron bomb is also part of LIC US counter-forces strategy. The neutron bomb is known as the ultimate capitalist weapon because Kills maximum number of people while destroying the minimum amount of property. does this by spewing out huge amounts of short-lived radiation, with relatively little blast or heat.
In line with PD59, the neutron bomb is being touted tor use in a limited war in Europe.
In April 1978 following protests against the deployment of the neutron bomb, Carter was forced to cancel plans to place the weapons in Europe. But the Pentagon is still producing the neutron bomb, and Reagan's would be produced 5 miles from a 5-megaton explosion! Secretary of Defence Caspar Weinberger recently renewed the call for placing them in Europe.
In Weinberger's words, the neutron bomb 'is a valuable addition to our forces, which we shall probably want to use.' PD 59, and the weapons system needed to implement it, are the latest in a long string of Pentagon escala tions of arms systems aimed at achieving and first strike capability.
But deploy these systems is not at all assured here is massive opposition ir Europe to the introduction of the Cruise and Pershing missiles and the neutron bomb. European workers are not impressed the desire to fight limited' wars that would turn Western Europe into graveyard.
Neither are American workparticularly about spending dollars on the MX system while facing cuts in real wages and social grammes.
The US rulers will find own that the blems of designing their first-strike system will be far smaller political problems in actually setting it up.
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