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Everyone, that is, except the people of Utah and Nevada who didn't like the idea of having a subway for nuclear bombs in their backyard. Among those who opposed this basing scheme were Sen. Paul N. Laxalt (R-Nev.), Sen. Jake Garn (R-Utah), and the Mormon Church. With some of its best friends fast turning into foes, the administration last spring started looking at other options. It has apparently returned to the land-based MX, with the following alterations: The number of missiles and silos has been halved, and the system reportedly includes anti-ballistic missiles (ABMs). This...
Lost in the planning turmoil was the original MX design, with its 4,600 shelters scattered across the deserts of Utah and Nevada. Three billion dollars has already been invested in that system, but it is opposed by powerful Republican Senators Jake Garn of Utah and Paul Laxalt of Nevada. There is little question that Reagan wants to avoid crossing his powerful political friends. White House Counsellor Ed Meese is believed to feel that the original MX system was devised to fit Jimmy Carter's failed hopes for a nuclear arms limitation treaty and, thus, the multiple-shelters idea...
Three conservative Republican Senators from the region, Reagan's friend Paul Laxalt of Nevada and Orrin Hatch and Jake Garn of Utah, have come out against the plan?so have leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon Church), an especially powerful force in Utah. In addition, Weinberger reportedly is concerned that the Soviets, unless restrained by a new SALT agreement, could use the eight years it would take to complete the land-based MX system to deploy enough of their own intercontinental warheads to wipe out all 4,600 of the shelters...
...critics (including Presidential Candidate Reagan) as technologically dubious and ridiculously expensive. Two months ago the powerful, conservative Mormon church joined the naysayers, beseeching the White House not to station the MX in Utah and Nevada. Then a brace of hawkish Republicans, Senators Paul Laxalt of Nevada and Jake Garn of Utah, marched into the Pentagon with their own panicky manifesto denouncing the Air Force's plan to put MX in their states. Next Congress's Office of Technology Assessment chimed in with a careful report that found serious fault with each of the proposed deployment plans. There...
Though his choices may consist, as Garn says, of "no good alternatives," the options previously mulled and culled sound even worse. A plan called "Sea-sitter" envisioned pinioning minimissiles on a fleet of roving seaplanes. Other proposals would have made giant molehills out of mountains: one called for sticking the missiles inside mountains for protection, and another would have placed each missile at a peak's southern foot, thus providing a natural barrier wall, since the Pentagon expects the Soviet CBMs to come gliding in over the North Pole. The Continuous Air Alert Carrier sounds space age; in fact...