Word: mx
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Midgetman is the nickname given the missile intended to succeed the MX nuclear weapon, which itself has been the subject of bitter fights the past four years...
Although Congress has limited the total MX deployment to 50, half of what Reagan originally asked, the Pentagon wants $1.8 billion next year for 21 more MX weapons for test purposes...
...against that of Weinberger, who is more cautious about taking military risks. He strongly backed U.S. funding of the contra forces opposing the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and lobbied skillfully against the eroding support for it in Congress. His work on the Hill also was influential in saving the MX missile program. He managed to take some of the anti-Soviet sting out of presidential speeches written by Patrick Buchanan, a conservative columnist brought to the White House by Regan. Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, last week called McFarlane "a brilliant, constructive...
...MX Peacekeeper, Do We Need It?: Brigadier General Charles A. May, Jr., USAF, The Lafayette Hotel, reception at 6 and program and dinner...
Under the Soviet proposal, the development of any new strategic weapon would be banned or severely restricted. The worst-case interpretation of the provision would forbid the two new American land-based ICBMs--the MX and Midgetman--as well as a new Trident II submarine-launched missile that has a hard-target kill capacity. Yet it would somehow permit inclusion of the two new Soviet ICBMs, the SS-24 and SS-25, which are roughly the equivalent of the MX and Midgetman...