December 9, 1974

December 9, 1974

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Editorial

A New Taste of SALT

By Robert Hotz

Missile Engineering

SALT Proposals Facing Hurdles

By Clarence A. Robinson

Missile Engineering

U. S. to Press MX Development

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Editorial

A New Taste of SALT

The new SALT agreement reached between President Gerald Ford and Communist Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev at Vladivostok allows both the United States and the USSR to do pretty much what they already contemplated in modernizing their strategic nuclear weapon forces.

By Robert Hotz

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Missile Engineering

SALT Proposals Facing Hurdles

By Clarence A. Robinson

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Missile Engineering

U. S. to Press MX Development

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Missile Engineering

U.S., Soviet Strategic Forces Detailed

Washington—Deployment of strategic weapons systems by the U.S. and Soviet Union within the limits of the Ford-Brezhnev agreement, according to the Defense Dept. includes: SS-9 includes some missiles deployed with FOBs and depressed trajectory capability.
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Missile Engineering

State Dept. Pushes for SALT Acceptance

Washington—State Dept. last week mounted a campaign designed to counter an initial flurry of criticism by politicians and arms experts over the agreement between President Ford and Leonid Brezhnev limiting nuclear weapons through 1985.
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Aerospace Employment

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Management

British Government Planning 10-Year Cutback in Defense

By Herbert J. Coleman

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Rapier Missile Buy

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Space Technology

Pioneer's Success Buoys Saturn Hopes

Moffett Field, Calif.—Prospects for the success of future planetary missions to the outer solar system rose substantially last week as a result of Pioneer 11’s successful close-in encounter with the giant planet Jupiter. Although Jupiter’s intense radiation caused anomalies in experiments and spacecraft systems, Pioneer emerged from the zone of peak danger in better shape intrinsically than did Pioneer 10.

By Benjamin M. Elson

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Space Technology

Apollo Maneuvers Key to ASTP Success

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