Yes, but when they realise it, 15 minutes is little time to act on what is going on: It might have been a moon storm or olner onenomenon which is mistaken for a disruption of the early warning system signifying attack. How can one take the decision to launch a full nuclear luust condions That is one possibility. Furthermore, 50 per cent of the US missiles submarine-launched, wherea missiles are submarine. So, the surviving weapons after the first strike will be 50 per cent on one side and only 20 per cent on the other.
Coupled with the decision to build the $34 billion MX missile system, to increase the number of Trident-bearing nuclear submarines, and to deploy Cruis missiles West , this lead, Jackson's words, to a 'continued escalation of the growing Amena as Ceberal Pasti And General demonstrates in the intervien avove lar ror bene deen.
sive' measures, the latest moves of the imperialist powers repre sent a major stepping up or the military threat to the Soviet Union.
That is only part of the story. If on the Soviet side, 11 per cent of the submarines are on permanent patrol, the US has 50 per cent of its submarines on patrol and is making a big effort to increase its number of submarines In short the United States is doevery lig to reach supentority Then there are the MX mobile missiles. There is opposition fron the General Accounting Office to these missiles, but Carter will go ahead with them. , Then there is the second Trident that can be used very close to the Soviet seacoast.
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