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Appendix A: Current U.S. and Soviet Strategic Froces and the Start Limits
Appendix A: Current U.S. and Soviet Strategic Froces and the Start Limits
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between the United States and the Soviet Union will place limits on the number of each nation's strategic nuclear warheads and strategic nuclear delivery vehicles. Specific kinds of delivery vehicles are subject to particular limitations.
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Given that the range of choice for bomber-carr~ed weapons is quite large, that reaching the outer limits of those choices is highly unlikely, and that both the United States and the Soviet Union face a number of significant procurement and modernization decisions whose outcomes are uncertain, the projections about future U.S. and Soviet forces make assumptions, described below, about the most probable choices based on the best available current knowledge.
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To date, the Soviet Union has reportedly deployed only about 100 SS-N-21 SLCMs. ballistic missile force would consist of 3,456 submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM)
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For the Soviet Union, the chart assumes 130 Bear-Hs with 10 ALCMs each and 60 Blackjacks with 16 bombs and SRAMs each. The START limits will give the Soviet Union the flexibility to deploy more Blackjack bombers than the 60 assumed in the chart, a number based on recently reported U.S.
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