MIRV and the Arms Race

THE development in the United States of multiple independently targetable missile warheads, and their deployment at (lie beginning of the 1970s on inter-continental missiles, was a practically inevitable consequence of the momen-tum ol the amis rate. Even a conscious decision on the part of the US Adminis-tration to halt this development would probahK have tailed. In a report, "The Origins of Ml BY",