subceiling
- a word derived from ceiling.
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Under their formula, a B-52 with 20 cruise missiles would count as one launcher against the subceiling of 1,320; a modified Boeing 747 armed with 80 cruise missiles would count as four launchers.
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In Geneva, Kampelman continued to press the Soviet negotiators for a subceiling on ballistic-missile warheads.
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Its subceiling of 1,320 multiple-warhead launchers allowed the two sides "freedom to mix" land-based and submarine-launched MlRVed missiles.
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Within that subceiling, a way had to be found of restricting the most dangerous component in the Soviet arsenal, MIRVed land-based missiles.
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They include a Soviet offer to lower the "subceiling" limiting the number of warheads on land-based strategic missiles, which would bring the Soviet proposal closer to that of the U.S.
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