The Carter administration is expected to decide next month which of a variety of possible basing modes it will adopt for the deployment of its new generation of intercontinental missiles, the MX. Richard Garwin here discusses how the alternatives relate to the current agreement on strategic arms limitation being negotiated with the USSR.
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Garwin, R. Multiple aimpoints not the answer. Nature 278, 204–205 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/278204a0
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