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Your campaign statements to date have done little to dissipate such concerns. You have explicitly opposed America's latest intercontinental ballistic missile, the MX; plans for a small, single-warhead mobile ICBM, the Midgetman; the B-1 and Stealth bombers. You have also urged a ban on all missile test flights. You have indicated that you would terminate or radically reduce the Strategic Defense Initiative...
...trim the margins. Carlucci scoffs at such sniping. Says he: "My phone is ringing off the hook from people on ((Capitol)) Hill who don't like my killing this weapons system and that weapons system." In fact, though, the systems he has hit -- primarily an Army pilotless plane, the Midgetman single-warhead nuclear missile and an antisatellite system -- are unpopular with either the services, Congress or both...
...feature in the American proposals of late 1985 came as an unpleasant surprise to the Soviets, and to many in the U.S. as well. It was a move to ban mobile ICBMs, including single-warhead missiles like the planned Midgetman. The prohibition was shoehorned into the U.S. position at the behest of Perle and the Pentagon. They wanted to stop the Soviet deployment of mobiles, which had already begun...
Notified at the last minute about the new American proposal, advocates of Midgetman were furious. They included four outsiders whose backing was important if the Administration was going to maintain bipartisan support for its defense policies: Brent Scowcroft, a former National Security Adviser in the Ford Administration; Democratic Senators Sam Nunn and Albert Gore Jr.; and Democratic Congressman Les Aspin. All had been supporting Midgetman for three years, arguing that it had the twin virtues of being harder for the other side to hit, since it was mobile, and less threatening as a first-strike weapon, since...
...even if Nunn is willing, the less explored question remains: Is he the best choice? Geographically, the answer is yes. Intellectually too, Nunn fills gaping holes for the Massachusetts Governor, who seems to think a Midgetman is someone shorter than he. An acknowledged arms-control wizard, Nunn can move the pieces of the Pentagon around in his head as if it were a giant G.I. Joe set. He practically reorganized the place in 1986 as the ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee...