Hearings on Military Posture and H.R. 10929: Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1979 Before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 - Government publications |
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... facilities and equipment . Overall , there has been no sign- ificant reduction in the vulnerability of Soviet industry to nuclear attack . -- The table below shows the correlation among cities , population , and industrial capacity as ...
... facilities and equipment . Overall , there has been no sign- ificant reduction in the vulnerability of Soviet industry to nuclear attack . -- The table below shows the correlation among cities , population , and industrial capacity as ...
Page 57
... bunkers and ICBM silos . It should be added that a great many of these facilities including airfields and ICBM silos -- -- could remain priority targets for a second - strike . Though the probability of escalation to a full - scale 57.
... bunkers and ICBM silos . It should be added that a great many of these facilities including airfields and ICBM silos -- -- could remain priority targets for a second - strike . Though the probability of escalation to a full - scale 57.
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... facilities and protective shelters for our deploying aircraft . On a longer - term basis , the Alliance , in addition to acquiring greater interoperability , also needs to provide for better electronic warfare capability , upgraded army ...
... facilities and protective shelters for our deploying aircraft . On a longer - term basis , the Alliance , in addition to acquiring greater interoperability , also needs to provide for better electronic warfare capability , upgraded army ...
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... facilities . - We have decided to initiate improvements in the Airborne Launch Control System ( ALCS Phase 3 ) announced last year , but at a lower funding level then projected . We are at the same time thoroughly reviewing this program ...
... facilities . - We have decided to initiate improvements in the Airborne Launch Control System ( ALCS Phase 3 ) announced last year , but at a lower funding level then projected . We are at the same time thoroughly reviewing this program ...
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... facilities at the Electric Boat Division operations in Groton , Connec- ticut and the opening of a satellite facility at Quonset Point , Rhode Island . In addition , it was necessary substantially to increase man- power levels at the ...
... facilities at the Electric Boat Division operations in Groton , Connec- ticut and the opening of a satellite facility at Quonset Point , Rhode Island . In addition , it was necessary substantially to increase man- power levels at the ...
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Acquisition active addition air defense airborne aircraft airlift allies areas arms Army artillery attack ballistic missile bomber capability carrier Chart combat command and control communications continue conventional cost cruise missile Department of Defense deployed deployment deterrence effective efforts equipment Europe fighter fleet funding ground forces helicopter ICBM improve increase initial launchers logistics maintain major Marine Corps ment military million MINUTEMAN MINUTEMAN III mission mobility modern munitions NATO NATO's naval forces Navy nuclear forces nuclear weapons operational percent personnel planned posture procurement production protection radar readiness reduce region reserve satellites Secretary of Defense ships SLBM Soviet Union squadrons strategic forces strategic nuclear submarine surface-to-air missile surveillance tactical air forces tanks targets theater nuclear theater nuclear forces threat tion TRIDENT United USSR V/STOL war reserve stocks warheads Warsaw Pact weapon systems
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Page 655 - States is to preserve the United States as a free nation with its fundamental institutions and values intact.
Page 260 - Force (Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Installations) General Counsel, Department of the Army Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (Research and Advanced Technology) Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Equal Opportunity) Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs...
Page 192 - The United States will not be the first supplier to introduce into a region newly-developed, advanced weapons systems which would create a new or significantly higher combat capability.
Page 192 - We will continue to utilize arms transfers to promote our security and the security of our close friends. But in the future the burden of persuasion will be on those who favor a particular arms sale, rather than those who oppose it.
Page 14 - US advantages in other characteristics; and —— the US posture is not in fact, and is not seen as, inferior in performance to the strategic nuclear forces of the Soviet Union.
Page 193 - I am initiating this policy of restraint in the full understanding that actual reductions in the worldwide traffic in arms will require multilateral cooperation.
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