a nen ene
-3As for penalties involved in clean designs, they
are temporary - if we apply the same development ej fort
as went into nuclear weapons from the start.
We may
expect the same rate of progress in the clean field
and have just started.
We cannot fit these heavier weapons into current
delivery vehicles without reducing our strikince power.
iCareful analysis of the destruction now planned wi]
- disclose that reductions imposed py clean weapons dre
Sligcnt if they
exist at ali, exceot in the fieicac of
radioactivity.
But most military plans are based toon
o”.
destruction from instantaneous effects alone, counting
radioactivity as a bonus, not effective for several
Gays and therefore of littie value in immediate reduction
of the threat.
Military planners nave been spoiled by rapid weight-fore
ve te ppeeeene ee
yileid reductions.
4&£ few years ago radioactive weapons
weighed much more than present clean ones of equal
Military planners can adjust to the far lesser pena
yield.
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19.
involved in clean weavons of tomorrow, if they Wilt
Why worry about radioactivity when the instantaneo}
effects of nuclear weavons create utter destruction:
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