Fiscal Year ... Arms Control Impact Statements: Statements Submitted to the Congress by the President Pursuant to Section 36 of the Arms Control and Disarmament ActU.S. Government Printing Office, 1982 - Arms control |
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ABM Treaty ACIS AFAP air defense Air Force airborne aircraft ALCM arms control agreements arms control impact arms control policy ASAT attack ballistic missile bomber chemical agent Chemical Warfare chemical weapons components control impact statement conventional cruise missiles defense systems deleted deployed deployment designed effective equipment funds FY 83 FY GLCM ICBM improved increase initial LANCE land-attack Laser launchers limited Line ment military missile systems mission modernization modifications MRASM NATO NATO's Navy nuclear forces nuclear systems nuclear warhead nuclear weapons operational PERSHING II POSEIDON potential production projectile protective radar range RDT&E reduce SALT II SALT II Agreement satellite ships short-range nuclear SLBM SLCM Soviet Union Space Defense SSBNs STANDARD Missile stockpile strategic forces submarines survivability TACAMO tactical targets theater nuclear threat tion TOMAHAWK TRIDENT United USSR verification vertical launch system Warsaw Pact weapon systems
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Page 398 - The science of planning and carrying out the movement and maintenance of forces. In its most comprehensive sense, those aspects of military operations which deal with: a. design and development, acquisition, storage, movement, distribution, maintenance, evacuation, and disposition of materiel; b.
Page 381 - ABM system is a system to counter strategic ballistic missiles or their elements in flight trajectory, currently consisting of: (a) ABM interceptor missiles, which are interceptor missiles constructed and deployed for an ABM role, or of a type tested in an ABM mode...
Page 388 - The exercise of authority and direction by a properly designated commander over assigned and attached forces in the accomplishment of the mission. Command and control functions are performed through an arrangement of personnel, equipment, communications, facilities, and procedures employed by a commander in planning, directing, coordinating, and controlling forces and operations in the...
Page 313 - States Parties to the Treaty shall carry on activities in the exploration and use of outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, in accordance with international law, including the Charter of the United Nations, in the interest of maintaining international peace and security and promoting international co-operation and understanding.
Page 153 - Each of the parties to the treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at any early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control.
Page 131 - In order to insure fulfillment of the obligation not to deploy ABM systems and their components except as provided in Article III of the Treaty, the Parties agree that in the event ABM systems based on other physical principles and including components capable of substituting for ABM interceptor missiles, ABM launchers, or ABM radars...
Page 407 - ... air combat and supporting operations designed to effect, through the systematic application of force to a selected series of vital targets, the progressive destruction and disintegration of the enemy's war-making capacity to a point where he no longer retains the ability or the will to wage war.
Page 405 - A mission undertaken to obtain, by visual observation or other detection methods, information about the activities and resources of an enemy or potential enemy ; or to secure data concerning the meteorological, hydrographic, or geographic characteristics of a particular area.
Page 313 - Each Party confirms its intention to take all possible measures to assure the continuous and reliable operation of the communications circuits and the system of terminals of the Direct Communications Link for which it is responsible in accordance with this Agreement and the Annex hereto, as well as to communicate to the head of its Government any messages received via the Direct Communications Link...
Page 131 - Each Party undertakes not to develop, test, or deploy ABM launchers for launching more than one ABM interceptor missile at a time...