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All You Ever Wanted To Know About MIRV and ICBM Calculations But Were Not Cleared To Ask
- Source :
- Journal of Conflict Resolution. 17:207-242
- Publication Year :
- 1973
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 1973.
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Abstract
- This paper (1) explains the variables and methods used to calculate the MIRV threat to the fixed-site land-based ICBM forces of the United States and the Soviet Union; (2) attempts to reconstruct the calculations presented in the 1969 ABM debate by Albert Wohlstetter, George Rathjens, and John S. Foster about the number of Minutemen which could be expected to survive an attack by forces of various sizes and characteristics; and (3) applies these methods, together with some plausible assumptions about classified variables, to two other security issues: the import of the SALT limitation on the size of the Soviet SS-9 force and the character of the threat to the Soviet fixed-site ICBM force posed by the American MIRV program.
- Subjects :
- 021110 strategic, defence & security studies
Sociology and Political Science
Law
05 social sciences
Political Science and International Relations
050602 political science & public administration
0211 other engineering and technologies
02 engineering and technology
Sociology
Soviet union
General Business, Management and Accounting
0506 political science
Clearance
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Details
- ISSN :
- 15528766 and 00220027
- Volume :
- 17
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Conflict Resolution
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........2955d6015b69ff0f91e9e8b767e1bd06