The Cold War devolved into a missle-measuring contest

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From Michio Kaku's To Win a Nuclear War Page 274.

Casper Weinberger actually went on TV to tell Americans about how much longer and thicker the Russians' ICBMs were than ours

 

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The SS-18 was a closer analog to Titan II anyway. Topol-M a better match to MM

There is a book on spaceflight from a decade or two back where a Titan III drawing was next to a Saturn IB…with a caption about one being more efficient than the other—when in fact the disparity in size was due to propellant selection.

 

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From Michio Kaku's To Win a Nuclear War Page 274.

Casper Weinberger actually went on TV to tell Americans about how much longer and thicker the Russians' ICBMs were than ours

Captain weinerberger

 

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Casper Weinberger actually went on TV to tell Americans about how much longer and thicker the Russians' ICBMs were than ours

"Look at the size of our ICBMs".