Word: mx
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book by six Harvard specialists on nuclear weapons policy supports a partial nuclear freeze, backs deployment of new NATO missiles in Europe and opposes the B-1 bomber, but reaches no conclusions on the proposed construction of the MX missile...
...overall agreement on the central thrust, but there were sharp disagreements over the MX and deployment of nuclear weapons in Europe," said co-author Samuel P. Huntington, Dillon Professor of International Affairs...
...scholars make no recommendations on Reagan's plan to build the MX missile, but they conclude that whatever the final decision on the MX, the U.S. should maintain a land-based missile force, even if its is "theoretically vulnerable" to Soviet attack...
...indifferent to the source and careless with the wealth. They need periodic kicks in the pants. Reagan delivered one. But he has gone too far in a number of ways and is being shouldered back to center. The defense budget has been cut and will be cut more. The MX missile will not be based in a "big bird" flapping about the heavens, but will be put into old silos in the ground to save about $33 billion...
...last December. And, like the recently enacted Social Security-reform package, the recommendations represent a bipartisan political compromise. But the proposed solution still faces problems on Capitol Hill. The commission has argued that the combination of recommendations is a seamless package, but an effort in Congress to jettison the MX and vote only on the Midgetman seems likely. "Few, if any, will consider our recommendations an optimal solution," summed up retired Air Force Lieut. General Brent Scowcroft, the panel's chairman. "If such were available, this commission probably would not have been convened...