Word: mx
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...side as aggressive threats to stability requiring still further escalations of nuclear capability. But many Americans still maintain an implicit faith in Yankee ingenuity; they continually hope for the development that will put the Russians in their place and give the U.S. a safe and lasting strategic superiority. The MX missile is one more such hope that will surely prove to be every bit as futile and destabilizing as past systems have been...
...land-based, mobile MX intercontinental ballistic missile, which has apparently received the green light from the Carter administration, has two characteristics that separate it from our current land-based missiles. First is the MX's mobility. Current missiles, which rest in silos scattered throughout the country, are considered sitting ducks for a new generation of Soviet land-based missiles that are highly accurate and obscenely powerful. To make the missiles less vulnerable, the MX is designed to ride on 12 miles of track buried five feet below the ground in "hardened" tunnels. The missile would be randomly moved around...
...second characteristic of the MX, which often attracts less publicity, is its lethality: the MX would have substantially more throw-weight and accuracy than missiles currently in the American arsenal. This would be of particular value in attacking Soviet missiles, whose hardened silos appear to be effective against all but the most accurate and powerful of missiles...
...that localities are better suited to implement certain programs than is the federal government. But it does not necessarily follow that $12.4 billion is a fair level of funding for all of community development in the United States when a single program for a missile of dubious value--the MX--may cost as much as $35-40 billion. Neither does it follow that revenue sharing means the federal government can't make any attempt to coordinate urban policy in a comprehensive...
...satellite killer to counter Soviet advances in that sphere (see following story). The mobile missile, called M-X (for "missile experimental"), would replace the Minuteman in a decade; by then the Soviets would presumably have the means to wipe out the Minuteman's fixed underground silos. The MX, at a total cost of at least $40 billion, could be moved rapidly along tracks ten to twelve miles long to escape detection and attack...