Word: brobdingnagians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most publicized plan for deploying the missiles is now nearly synonymous with MX itself and with the controversy surrounding it. Under this $40 billion scheme, the missiles would be wheeled around 200 high-security drag strips scattered over 10,000 miles in the desert wastes of the West. This brobdingnagian shell game is intended to foil any Soviet strike by baffling the enemy: unaware of each missile's actual location, the Soviets would be obliged to target all 4,600 MX shelters to guarantee success. But the drag strip system has been assailed by critics (including Presidential Candidate Reagan...
...about the size of the state of New Jersey would require building 4,600 shelters and 9,000 miles of roads. Along the roadways, flatbed vehicles, forever rolling, would carry missiles tipped with ten warheads each. That is the $56 billion scheme for safeguarding the proposed MX system, a brobdingnagian shell game meant to foil a Soviet attack on the missiles. The plan has been derided as an ineffective, ecology-destroying boondoggle, and the MX now has a powerful new foe: leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who, Mormons believe, are divinely inspired when they...