(Talking) Wilson was a member of the Appropriations Committee in the U.S.House of Representatives, and used his position to help buy Afghan fighters weapons, including Stinger missiles, that inflicted heavy damage on Soviet gunships.
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The proposed U.S. rail- and road- mobile basing modes for the MX and Midgetman ICBMs, however, will not in themselves solve the growing survivability problem posed by, among other things, modernized and new Soviet heavymissiles.
In sum, Russia is doing what it can to maintain as much nuclear capability as it can, expending very scarce resources on deploying a new mobile missile, keeping heavy MIRVed missiles in the field, and retaining a massive infrastructure an order of magnitude greater than our own in terms of numbers of personnel and the capability to produce new warheads.
Ukraine and Kazakhstan demonstrated a similar pattern of cooperation when they decided to rid themselves of the nuclear weapons, intercontinental ballistic missiles and heavy bombers inherited from the Soviet Union.