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SPECIAL PEACE SUPPLEMENT

‘L.. cRUISEIS A TREATY-BUSTER

One thing Cruise isn’t is what Reagan says it is — a bargaining
Chip to force the USSR to negotiate. The Soviet Union has already
put forward proposals for a nuclear freeze, for no first use of
nuclear weapons, for nuclear weapons-free zones (including
Europe) and for dismantling both the Warsaw Pact and NATO.
The U.S. rejects allthese. = =

Cruise breaks previous SALT agreements which ban deploy-
Ment of both groundand air-launched Cruise missiles with a range
of over 350 miles. Cruise can be fired from land, sea or air. Its
Small size. (6 metres) makes existing treaty verification methods
orkable. =
| Cruise is just wonderful for arms-makers because it makes
mpts to limit arms production more difficult. For life on earth
‘ot So wonderful. Cruise marks a new stage in the arms race.

stabilizing and highly dangerous.

2 = CRUISE IS A MASS KILLER

The crude arithmetic of Cruise is this: more accuracy and more

deaths. for your dollar. The guidance technology may be
advanced and expensive; but the’ actual delivery system is the
Cheapest yet devised — about $2-million each, or 2,000 for the
Price of one U.S. Trident submarine.
»It’s.a’single engine jet with a nuclear warhead 20 times the size
of the Hiroshima bomb. Cruise was made cheaply to be deployed
in large’numbers. Apart from the 464 scheduled for Europe this
year, the U.S. intends to deploy 5,000 in all wings of its services.

Together with Pershing-2 and MX, the capability will be in place
to unleash droves of these toward the USSR from all directions.
Such overkill means nothing in terms of deterrence — but means
a lot in terms of starting and trying to win a nuclear war.

3. CRUISE IS FIRST-STRIKE WEAPON

Other missiles are immediately detectable for what they are.

ey go up and come down in an arc, and use rocket not.aircraft

fuel — so they are detectable on launch from infra-red satellite
Photography. Look at Cruise from.a radar screen, if you can, or
look at it from a satellite — either way it’s no-different from a low.

flying aircraft. Cruise is slow, 550 miles per hour, though a

Supersonic Cruise is being developed, but Cruise is also very

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4. cruise NUCLEAR BUTZKREIG

Cruise is-an extension of Nazi Germany's V-Bomb. But the U.S. .

hasn’t only borrowed from Hitler's technology — it has also
borrowed from his strategy — Blitzkreig, or lighting war. Cruise

_< has only one. other comparable weapons’ system, it's the
_ Pershing-2. Both are surprise attack weapons. What Pershing
_ lacks in stealth it makes up in speed.

Pershing and Cruise are accurate enough to take out Soviet
missile sites. The USSR might see Pershing coming — but they'll

‘have less than six minutes to do anything about it. Backed by

hundreds of Cruise rockets, this isn’t deterrence, it’s first strike
nuclear blitzkreig.

That’s the reason for the “launch on warning” statement by the
USSR. It isn’t an attempt to “frighten the peace movement”, but a
cold recognition of the reality of today’s nuclear nightmare.

5 = CRUISE HURTS CANADA

Canadais not asnuclear power — not yet. But testing the Cruise

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