There is also little support in Congress for more land-based missiles.

Still, his position remains confusing on the future of land-based missiles.

Less than thirty minutes separate their land-based missiles from us.

The two sides have also had differences over what limits should be set on land-based missiles.

Making land-based missiles mobile is meant to reduce this risk.

What to do about the nation's land-based missile forces?

On mobile land-based missiles, it makes sense for the Start treaty to allow them.

And there's no chance for funding either new land-based missile unless it's part of an arms control package.

The legislation would cut $150 million from the Pentagon's request of $1.28 billion for two land-based missiles.

Billions more can be saved by building one new mobile land-based missile instead of two.

Land-based missiles might be wiped out by a pre-emptive strike.

Soviet officials proposed to limit the number of each side's land-based missile warheads to 3,600.

The decision was part of a political compromise to end the 10-year battle over modernizing the land-based missile system.

First, it would ban mobile land-based missiles with more than one warhead.

"We depend on our land-based missiles more than you," Golovko said.

They also know that their land-based missiles are vulnerable to attack from the US.

Thus, the land-based missile leg of the French nuclear triad has been eliminated.

They are by aircraft, land-based missiles, fast patrol boats and mines.

But in any event, a ban on all types of mobile land-based missiles appears unlikely.

But nuclear weapons still represent a powerful economic force, pumping an estimated $1 billion a year into the five states with land-based missiles.

"Less than twenty percent of continental land-based missiles were able to get airborne.

The second step would be the eventual elimination of all land-based missiles with multiple warheads.

Officials said the make-up of a possible force of land-based missiles was also uncertain.

He also said that he was not opposed to modernizing land-based missile systems.

"It would take a decade to develop a whole new weapons system, leaving our land-based missiles increasingly vulnerable and obsolete."