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A CRUISE MISSILE SYSTEM FOR EUROPE Sack Memorial Lecture Cornell University September 26, 1978 Abstract Strategic cruise missiles launched from standoff aircraft are effective carriers of nuclear warheads. They cannot be used effectively against hardened ICBM silos. Tactical cruise missiles will be built for inventory in the hundreds of thousands and could cost as little as $50,000 each (1978$). System resources are essential to the effective use of tactical cruise missiles-- basing, communications by elevated line-of-sight, target assignment, and the like. Richard L. Garwin IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 THE CRUISE MISSILE burst upon the public consciousness with the cancellation by President Carter in June 30, 1977, of the B-1 bomber, and the announcement of the decision to rely on the strategic air-launched cruise missile for the airfield-based component of the strategic offensive force. But, in fact, cruise missiles have been around for a long time. The B-1 buzz bomb was a cruise missile used by the Germans against England in World War II. The United States had a number of different cruise missiles in our own inventory during World War II and especially afterwards-- Snark and Regulus and even recently, until a few years ago, MACE-B, a nuclear-armed cruise missile deployed in Europe, primarily in Germany. So, it is nothing new. First, I am going to talk about the desire to have cruise missiles, what they do as strategic offensive nuclear weapon carriers, as tactical weapons, and what they will do in displacing other types of forces in the U.S. NATO inventory. One should also ask what we might feel if the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact had cruise missiles, and then try to assess the effect on U.S. security of transfer of cruise missil