particularly inportsnt for non -central strategic employrnent ' \2" The Soveit Union has soue ?oO MRBl4s and IRA4S deployed botb in the l.'estern us$R and east of the urals, Among then is the ne,t'l', xrobile ss-20 rnissile with a 3..MIRV payload. It is believed that over 100 of these have been deployed so far" Also the USSR possesses about !00 mediu,n-range bombers, e.8, of the types Tu-15 'Badger ana fu-eei,l rr3ackf ire r', capable of nuclear delivery' On the United StatJs side there are 65 rg-ffrn rnerlium-range bombers and 300''l+00 forwartl based short-range, nuclear capable strike aircraft of types f-\, F-111 an'l others " The United States arsenal has no IRBMS. I. g!Ig!S€_l,c^?{e_e!elg-eq--gthel gorrn-trfg-s- \3. Britain has \ nuclear balfistic missile subnarines, each with 15 Polaris A-3 missiles (3xeoo m. not inalependentfy targetable) " with an operational radius of about 3.,000 km. Ttle vul-c an bomber fleet, fofltreTly considereil as a strategic nuclear component, is no longer l-isted as such in available souTces. Tt has been reported recently thah the British Government has decided to buy the Anerican Trident C-l+ subroarine-l-aunched. baLl"istic nissile" lrhich lritl be equi?ped. with British "cheval- ine" narheade . l+l+. France possesses at present 6l.l SLm'{s in lr nuclear-povered subrnarines, 18 IRBMS and 5 squadrons of some 30 l.{irage-IVA nerlium-range bombers. A fifth SLBM subnar ine is scheduleat to be operationel before 1985. The SLBMs have about a 5"000 "kn range and 1-Mt single warheads ' the IRBM6, a range of some 3'0oo kn' and single warheads of l-50 kt. yield' L5, China is estimated to have deployed 50 to ?O intermediate range ballistic missiles.. l+O to 5O medium-range ballistic roissi].es, and tvo lirnited-range ICRI{s' A flight test of a chinese ICBM was conducted in the nid.dl-e of May 1p80. Also in