At issue is the relative throw-weight of the tax coffers.

The United States could build big missiles with large throw-weight if it wanted to.

But during the current strategic arms reduction talks, the Russians agreed to cut their throw-weight in half.

And the commercial throw-weight of the teen-age industry makes the old days seem comically small time.

Within the Republican Party, that remains the largest source of nomination throw-weight out there.

Bulava has slightly greater range but a lower throw-weight.

Has sufficient throw-weight to deploy up to 12 warheads, but 8 are deployed in current practice.

However, for new types, the determination of accountable throw-weight is subject to two additional provisions.

Under the treaty, the Soviet Union alone is committed to reducing the average throw-weight of all its missiles by 50 percent across the board.

The throw-weight, or weight of the payload a missile can carry, has long bedeviled arms control negotiators.

Conservative critics have long been concerned about the high throw-weight of the Soviet Union's large, land-based missiles.

For example, they have said that any new type of missile must have considerably larger throw-weight than the SS-25.

Whatever the Times' journalistic throw-weight, the Journal's effort could siphon off some local advertising dollars.

There are no intermediate limits on aggregate throw-weight during the seven-year reductions period.

That related to the definition of a new missile, in terms of its throw-weight, or destructive capacity, for treaty purposes.

An optimal trajectory maximizes the total payload (throw-weight) using the available impulse of the missile.

Soviet officials have also said such a treaty could result in a 50 percent cut in the throw-weight, or payload, of Soviet missiles.

Throw-weight is generally understood to include the weight of the warheads, any decoys that are used and the so-called bus that houses them.

Kissinger also noted the changing focus of the opposition to the agreement at Vladivostok, which first emphasized reductions and then stressed "equal throw-weight".

This is a bad assumption; one generally makes the upper stages as large as they can be given the throw-weight of the stages below them.

Definition of New Missile That issue was how to define what consitutes a nuclear missile's throw-weight.

While throw-weight may refer to any type of warhead, in normal usage it almost exclusively refers to nuclear or thermonuclear payloads.

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And if superpower status is measured by throw-weight, by potential or by sheer size, the Soviet Union qualifies in anybody's book.

So, over the years, U.S. policymakers have asserted that deterrence hangs by the slender threat of miscellanea such as missile throw-weight.