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Significant investments were made to protect, or "harden, " America's strategic nuclear forces and its associated command and control systems against the harmful effects of EMP blasts.
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New generations of Soviet tactical and strategic weapons, aircraft, missiles, ships, radars and command, control and communication systems to name but a few will rely heavily upon computer chips, microprocessors and semiconductors fabricated with heretofore controlled Western technology.
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New generations of Soviet tactical and strategic weapons, aircraft, missiles, ships, radars and command, control and communication systems -- to name but a few -- will rely heavily upon computer chips, microprocessors and semiconductors fabricated with heretofore controlled Western technology.
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Strategic Command, Control and Communications (C3): The United States must ensure that the C3 systems that operate and integrate its strategic offensive and defensive forces effectively are given no less budgetary priority than is accorded those forces.
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But many systems that were not deemed vital during a nuclear war, such as non-strategic command and control, were left unprotected.
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