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Aucbvax.1495 fa.arms-d utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!dlw@MIT-AI Tue Jun 2 22:52:56 1981

I have seen this claim before (that MIRV makes first-strike make more sense because you no longer need one silo to knock out another silo). As far as I know, this is generally accepted as true, and you can read it in books on nuclear deterrence. (I am not totally certain about this.)

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