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1979, Congress of the United States, Congressional Budget Office
Publisher:
Congress of the United States, Congressional Budget Office
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1979
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English
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16507106642
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Good. xxix, [1], 135, [3] pages. Footnotes. Tables. Figures. Cost Effective Model. Estimated Soviet Multiple-Warhead ICBMs in the Post-1990 Period. This paper, prepared at the request of the Senate Committee on the Budget, examines one of a series of programs to modernize U.S. strategic forces that the Congress will consider during the 1980s. It focuses on the long-term costs of developing and deploying a multiple protective structure (MPS) basing system for U.S. land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). Particular attention is paid to the implications of possible Soviet responses and to the effect of future SALT limitations. The paper also examines three missile options that could be associated with deployment of an MPS basing system. Finally, the report reviews the arguments for and against the development and deployment of an MPS basing system. During the last two years, several versions of MPS basing systems have been studied by the Department of Defense and other groups. A complex of vertical shelters received the greatest attention; this concept was found to be the least expensive. Because concerns have been raised about the difficulties in monitoring the number of missiles deployed in a vertical shelter system, an MPS basing system involving horizontal protective shelters is also being considered by the Administration. The Administration has focused on one type of horizontal shelter system in which missiles would move along rails built at the bottom of trenches that would be covered with removable roofs. The LGM-118 Peacekeeper, originally known as the MX for "Missile, Experimental", was a MIRV-capable intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) produced and deployed by the United States from 1985 to 2005. The missile could carry up to 12 Mk.21 reentry vehicles, although treaty-limited to 10, each armed with a 300-kiloton W87 warhead. Initially, 100 MX ICBMs were planned to be built and deployed, but budgetary concerns eliminated the final procurement and only 50 entered service. Disarmament treaties signed after the Peacekeeper's development concluded in its eventual withdrawal from service in 2005. Studies on the underlying concept started in the 1960s. The idea was to allow the US to absorb a sneak attack by the USSR with enough warheads surviving to attack the remaining Soviet missile fleet. To do so, the missiles had to be highly accurate, be based in such a way that enough would survive to launch a counterstrike, carry a large number of warheads so the survivors would still inflict massive damage, and be able to rapidly re-target so they could be aimed at only those missiles the Soviets had not yet fired. Ultimately the only problem that was never completely solved was the issue of basing, over its development through the 1970s, MX emerged as a highly accurate, rapid-firing, and quickly retargeted system. Initial development began in 1971, with full-scale development starting in 1974. President Jimmy Carter ordered initial production in 1979 but was overturned by Congress. After considerable debate about the system, in October 1982, President Ronald Reagan announced that 50 of the newly named Peacekeepers would be put into service in existing LGM-30 Minuteman silos, a temporary solution until a final basing solution was decided. The first flight test took place in 1983, which included the successful launch of six inert re-entry vehicles, each hitting pre-planned targets. It was the first US ICBM to use a cold launch system, reaching initial operational capability in 1986. During the same period, the United States and the Soviet Union were involved in negotiations on the START II treaty, under which ICBMs were allowed to carry only a single warhead each. Because the Minuteman could carry a single warhead for far less money, the United States agreed to remove the Peacekeeper from their nuclear force in this treaty. Despite the US withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and...
