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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, FEBRUARY 28, 1986
British and French submarines alone will be capable of
inflicting staggering damage on the Soviet Union. The Trident
II and M-4 SLBMs [submarine-launched ballistic missiles] will
give Great Britain and France a weapon that even Moscow has
only recently developed:
a solid-fuel SLBM equipped with
multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRVs).
The range of the new SLBMs will give the submarines 10 times
more ocean area in which to prowl, and let them penetrate to
within a few minutes' missile flight time to their targets••••
In the eyes of the Kremlin leaders, each British and French
SLBM-firing submarine will have, at the very minimum, the
ability to destroy the Soviet copper, chemical, and gas
refining industries, as well as almost 70 per cent of Soviet
aluminum and oil production, while having several warheads
each left over to attack Moscow, Murmansk, Leningrad,
Stalingrad, and the missile-testing center at Tyuratam ••••
No wonder the Soviets are concerned; furthermore it would appear now that
the French and, secondarily perhaps, the British strategic nuclear forces
will form the strategic nucleus of a European "third force" in the future.
What if such awesome power should fall under the control of unsavory
quarters in a united Europe so that it would be directed against the
United States, perhaps with the foreknowledge of the Soviet Union--a
restored Roman Empire in Europe having made a non-aggression agreement
with the Soviets and their allies? The Americans "would never know what
hit 'em," to use the old saying. Recall the quote by Norman Cousins in
this column last time: "A missile launched by a submarine•••provides no
automatic or certain information about the identity of the sender."
--Gene Hogberg, News Bureau