Word: mx
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Commission's line of reasoning was clear, and Reagan bought the conclusion appealing to Congress for MX funding. But the step he and Congress have accepted is still the one that should be eliminated...
...Commission began its argument by dealing a death blow to the emergency the MX is supposed to solve--Reagan's off quoted window of vulnerability." They did this primarily by broadening consideration of our strategic forces to include submarines as well as bombers and cruise missiles for many this redefinition may appear to be a truism; how could anyone overlook these highly effective and deferent weapons system. But the fact remains that Reagan at least in his rehtoric has done just that. By calling the US force "vulnerable" and "inferior". he has tried to create an erroneous impression that...
After correctly disposing of the "emergency" which MX is supposed to solve though the Commission still wanted the giant ICBM. Even as the original problem vanished. The New Yorker wrote, "its solution the missile--endured." The reason must be seen as primarily political. The President created the commission to find a basing made for MX the fact that in the process the experts invalidated much of the purpose for MX, and found a better solution for the "problem" anyway, doesn't seem to have hungered them or Congress. To ensure attention for the rent of the report, including the MX...
CONGRESS, at Reagan's urging, passed funding for the convenient MX. But that gullibility should not prevent it from acting on the more nearly solutions Scowcroft had to offer. After essentially reducing the MX to sugar for its recommendations, the Commission introduced a final pill which shouldn't be hard to swallow at all. The pill is Midgetman, a small, mobile missile with a single warhead that could be produced in large numbers, if needed, at relatively low cost. Such a non-threatening, land-based ICBM follows naturally from the Commission's argument that the "window of vulnerability" was never...
IMMEDIATELY AFTER Reagan's highly supportive letter arrived on Capitol Hill, the House Defense Subcommittee for Appropriations voted to release $560 million for flight testing of MX. The Senate followed suit two days later, and in all likelihood the MX...