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The U.S. will never again achieve nuclear superiority. But if it plays its cards right, our Government can accomplish some semblance of nuclear equality in Europe. To gain this position, the State Department will have to campaign more actively for the support of our European allies, and West German Chancellor...
Your story "Dense Pack Gets Blasted" [Dec. 20] states that after more than eight years of study, the expenditure of $4.5 billion on the missile and consideration of some 30 options, the Pentagon lacks a politically acceptable and scientifically credible basing mode. Has it occurred to anyone that this may...
The leak came at an awkward moment for the Reagan Administration, which had been embroiled in a dispute with Congress over funding of the controversial MX missile. Barely a week before, during the annual meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels, Secretary of State George Shultz had got a reaffirmation...
As the MX production battle moved to the Senate, Weinberger and Joint Chiefs Chairman John W Vessey Jr. ran into a cold reception from the Senate Armed Services Committee. Most of the Senators reaffirmed their support of the MX but badgered the Pentagon witnesses about all of the zigzags on...
Dense Pack was, in fact, mainly a creation of National Security Council Consultant Thomas Reed, a former Secretary of the Air Force, and National Security Adviser William Clark, who has no military expertise. Under a Dec. 1 deadline to come up with a basing system, the President rushed to oversell...