Word: mx
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part of its effort to make SALT II politically palatable, the Carter Administration ordered the development of the mobile MX, a ten-warhead successor to the three-warhead Minuteman, which would move around in a giant shell game to foil Soviet targeting. The trouble with MX is its mobile-basing mode. The system is hugely expensive (possibly as much as $100 billion) and terribly destructive of both the natural and social environment in which it would exist. More troublesome still are its military ramifications. If the U.S. goes ahead with a mobile MX, the Soviets may try to disguise...
...Peace Alliance replaced large portions of the MIT draft with a short description of the MX missile on the advice of Harvard professors and students, Judith A. Clark, Peace Alliance member and a graduate student at the School of Education, said yesterday...
Mendelsohn said yesterday he supports the petition drive because he believes "the MX missile can only lead to further destabilization and escalation of the arms race...
Kistiakowsky said he objects to the "terrible ecological damage" he believes the MX missile deployment will cause. "More earth will have to be moved than ever before in human history," he added...
...Peace Alliance plans to collect about 500 signatures in the next three weeks and raise money to pay for further anti-MX publicity, Thomas E. Canel '83, a member of the Peace Alliance, said yesterday...