Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Navy's troubled F/A-18 fighter-bomber is under fresh fire from Capitol Hill, flak so heavy that the fate of the program, expected to cost up to $40 billion, may now be in some doubt. The basic problem is a familiar one: cost overruns. But the powerful House Appropriations Committee, in a stinging letter of complaint to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, contends that the Navy has compounded its errors by trying to conceal the extent of the overruns, perhaps illegally. The charge comes at a bad time for the Pentagon, which has been maintaining that every bit of economizing...
...next day, however, the House promptly rebuffed any interpretation that it was opposed to the general thrust of the President's record arms buildup. It shouted down attempts to eliminate $3.9 billion for production of the B-1 strategic bomber and $3.5 billion for one of two new nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. It passed the $231 billion defense appropriations bill for fiscal 1983, $48 billion more than this year's military outlays, but $18 billion less than Reagan wanted...
EVEN IF IT WORKED, targeting our silos would hardly be worthwhile for the Soviets. An attack on our land-based missiles with theirs would cancel out both sides' first-strike capability. Meanwhile, our submarines and bomber forces, larger and more likely to survive than their Soviet counterparts, could adequately attack Soviet cities and military targets other than silos. After a first strike, the United States would emerge with more and better nuclear weapons than the Soviets...
...risks and make complex decisions and not be overwhelmed." His system of analysis, balancing probabilities and consequences, can be used to help make important personal decisions, such as whether a cancer patient should have chemotherapy, and to tackle public policy questions, such as whether to build the B-l bomber...
High-priced military hardware--like the Pershing--makes Reagan Administration pulses pound with enthusiasm. The armsracing Californians who run the Pentagon have ushered in a host of shiny new weapons systems: the B-IB bomber, the MX missile, the M-1 tank, the F-18 fighter, and a whole military-industrial complex--full of other guns, planes, helicopters, ships and missiles. The Administration's emphasis on military technology has dramatically increased the Pentagon's already-bloated procurement budget. From 1981 to 1983, procurement spending rose nearly three times as fast as total defense spending. But because of incompetent management...