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Curtailing of Stealth Bomber Urged
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The Air Force's new Stealth bomber threatens to be so costly and
so provocative to the Soviets that it should be limited to the
construction of a few experimental prototypes rather than be
mass-produced as planned, the Federation of American Scientists said
yesterday.
The federation, composed of 5,000 engineers and scientists
seeking an end to the nuclear arms race, said "it is parodoxical"
that the United States would build a bomber to find and destroy
mobile missiles "just at the moment" the Soviets seem to agree with
many scientists in the United States that such mobile weapons make it ...
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