Word: mx
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mondale's tart reply, addressed directly to Reagan, was: "Your definition of national strength is to throw money at the Defense Department. My definition ... is to make certain that a dollar spent buys a dollar's worth of defense." While repeating his oppositon to the MX missile ("a sitting duck") and the B-l bomber (flying it, he said, would be "a suicide mission"), Mondale rattled off a long list of weapons systems he did favor. Money saved on the MX and Bl, he contended, could be spent for other military purposes, like strengthening conventional forces in Europe. Said Mondale...
...also wanted to appeal to his liberal constituency. What we had from the Mondale side was a lot of facts, a lot of statements that were, internally, madly contradictory. He would not give away the technology of the space defense system, but he wouldn't build it. The MX will draw fire, but why not the Minuteman? To call the arms race madness implies that it was largely in our control...
...philosophical one, and the President summed it up in a phrase, "Should we conduct policy from weakness?" That's too simple a way of putting it, but that is the essential point-whether one can negotiate better by making a series of unilateral moves, like giving up the MX, Bl, Strategic Defense Initiative [Star Wars], or whether one can negotiate better by continuing whatever programs are considered in the national interest until there is some equitable settlement...
...testing of two new intercontinental ballistic missiles in violation of the treaty's ban on testing more than one. The Kremlin contends that one of the missiles is merely a modernization of an older weapon; the U.S., the Soviets point out, is planning two new missiles, the MX and the Midgetman...
...foreign policy. Harkin, who has won five successive terms in a Republican district in southwest Iowa, has tried to deflect criticism of his opposition to a constitutional amendment banning abortion by proclaiming, "If we are truly concerned about respect for life, we should enact a nuclear freeze, cancel the MX missile and stop sending arms to Central America...