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VANCOUVER (CUP) - The debate whether the cruise missile is a first-

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strike or retaliatory weapon has been raging on Cana- dian campuses for years, but new developments leave

little room for dispute.

This spring, a series of letters to the The Ubyssey at the University of British Columbia, argued that the low-flying cruise is for retal- iatory purposes, since it is much slower than supersonic missiles.

Other students, however, argued that the cruise’s ex- treme accuracy classifies it as a ”counterforce” weapon, and must, therefore, be designed for nuclear war- fighting or first-strike strate- gies.

But John Lamb, director of the Canadian Centre for Arms Control and Disarma- ment in Ottawa, says the de- bate about the missile’s use will change significantly with the new Advanced Cruise

Missile or ACM.

In a recent brief, Lamb and other researchers say

ACMs will be faster, with improved guidance systems and longer ranges. Most importantly, they will have radar-evading "stealth tech- nology” designed to make the weapons more difficult to detect, and better suited to a surprise attack.

The new cruise was to be deployed by late 1989 or early 1990, but is now a year behind schedule. About 2,300 of the weapons will likely be produced. An even more advanced, supersonic version of the weapon will be deployed in the mid-to- late 1990s.

The Arms Control recommends that Canada should “head the advanced cruise off at the pass,” pressing both Wash- ington and Moscow to nego- tiate limitations on modern-

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izing cruise missiles, particu- larly their speed.

Without such an agree- ment, Soviet versions of the advanced cruise will eventu- ally create serious problems for Canadian air defence, say

- the researchers.

“The prospect of one day facing (and trying to defend against) a substantial Soviet force of advanced cruise mis- siles is hardly reassuring,” says the. brief.

To date, defence minis- ter Beatty has denied that there are any current plans to test the modernized cruise - but officials at the centre say that’s not good enough.

“What is forthright statement by the Secretary of State for Ex- ternal Affairs setting out Canada’s the modernization of cruise tech-

needed is a

position on

nology,” they say.

“Where, in short, does the government propose to draw the line on testing?” the brief asks.

cruise

The cruise missile has an explosive power 15 times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. Both the NDP

and the Liberals oppose fur- ther cruise tests, especially since the recent Soviet-U.S. agreement to cut intermedi- ate range weapons negates Canada’s original reasons for allowing the testing. .

‘Not to worry... Just a little fallout from our 1950s weapons tests.’

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