Word: mx
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marx said, always happen twice: once as tragedy, the second time as farce. These days we are told we are enmeshed in a second Cold War. The Russians are once again out to conquer the entire world, starting with the Moslem tribesmen of Afghanistan. SALT II is off, the MX is on; public opinion polls show a majority of the U.S. population favors increased defense spending for the first time in a long while. Once again the calls go up to arm the anti-Communist dictators, and to hell with human rights, nonproliferation or progressive social change. And of course...
...decision in December to deploy in Western Europe, by the mid-1980s, new atomic-tipped missiles capable of striking targets in the Soviet Union. Thus SALT simply was not all that important any more. Carter, meanwhile, had gone ahead and increased the U.S. defense budget and okayed the MX mobile missile (in response
...back or proceed in that conversion. Also, the Soviets might any day test an SS-18 heavy missile with 20 or more warheads. For them to do so would not only make a mockery out of the SALT II freeze on MIRVing, it would also jeopardize the U.S. mobile MX missile -which is supposed to replace the vulnerable stationary ICBMS-before it even gets off the drawing board. For the MX to be sure of surviving a Soviet first strike, there must be a strict limit on the number of warheads that the Soviets could throw at the MX...
...floor as Southern senators filibuster. Sam Nunn of Georgia declares that his colleagues' latest demand was to exchange SALT II for the death of Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev. Meanwhile, facing growing criticism on the left, Kennedy announces that he will solve the urban mass transit crunch by placing the MX subterranean missile system on city subways...
December 24: Kennedy retaliates by launching an MX missile attack from the Red Line. Washington Burns. Again...