The Bush Administration and Congressional supporters of its mobile missile plan have set the stage for a rout in the arms control negotiations.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Bush��s Faustian Deal On Mobile Missiles
In other words, under any foreseeable circumstances, U.S. investment in an effort to mimic Soviet mobile missile programs is unlikely to produce strategic benefits commensurate with the cost in defense resources.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Bush��s Faustian Deal On Mobile Missiles
During the Gulf War, SAS teams penetrated deep within Iraq to search for mobile Scud missile launchers.
They spoke on the same day a U.S. official first told CNN that communications intercepts indicated North Korea may be planning to launch a mobile ballistic missile in the coming days or weeks.
Instead, a combination of multiple, austere silos among which a transportable (as opposed to fully mobile) missile could be moved and an ability to defend the loaded silos preferentially offers a more militarily and cost-effective approach.
In recent weeks, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to sharply reduce the amounts requested for the rail-mobile MX and the road-mobile Midgetman missile, for the B-2 "Stealth" bomber and the advanced cruise missile, and for the Strategic Defense Initiative in the FY1990 Defense authorization bill.
Acquiring this ability is costly: you need more missiles, mobile missiles and missile-toting submarines.
"It may be a special, mobile, non-strategic anti-missile force, " Ivashov told a news conference.
To assure the Russians that this initiative would only modify, not imperil, the U.S.-Soviet Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty signed in 1972, however, the Administration intends to reaffirm in a new agreement the earlier accord's bans on sea-, air-, mobile ground- and space-based missile defenses of the territory of the United States.
"What is more, if any U.S. mobile ICBM is going to run into problems on budgetary grounds, it is the Midgetman single-warheaded missile, " Gaffney said.
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