Word: mx
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MX MISSILE, despite its repudiation last Monday in the House of Representatives: remains high on the Pentagon's wish list, and President Reagan has vowed to "take his case to the country" to save it Reagan's concern stems from a frightening but increasingly popular story. The story runs as follows: By 1984, the Soviet Union will have built enough ICBMs to destroy, in one blow, all of America's land based missile force. The Soviets will seize this golden opportunity having labored for decades to achieve it) and launch the attack, targeting our land-based missiles but leaving cities...
...window of vulnerability" to such attack, Reagan believes, extends from to 1987 But we need not despair, the Administration assures us, because, for only 35 billion, we can build the MX missile system, which will be safe from the new Red Peril Like its predecessor the "missile gap," however, the window of vulnerability is illusory. The Soviets, like us, could not rationally count on "winning" a nuclear war in one strike, so they are no more likely than we are to launch...
...that they care most about as an intermediate range system, it can reach anywhere in Western Europe. They are also mobile....highly accurate and can be used as counter-force weapons ... For exactly the same reason why the Russians say they are so distressed at the Americans about the MX. Western Europeans are rightly concerned about the SS-20. The SS-20 is definitely something Andropov will continue on with in Europe...
...Administration defends the MX as a necessary response to the huge Soviet military buildup of the '70s. Don't you now have a strategic edge...
...MX is the first outright violation of both SALT I and SALT II, which reads: "Each party undertakes not to start construction of additional fixed ICBM launchers." The MX is regarded here as a first-strike weapon because of its very big number of warheads, their accuracy and their power. If you build something of this kind when you already have 9,000 warheads that can cover all possible targets three or four times, then you must have something in mind. The most obscene thing about this weapon is that the Administration tries to depict it as a contribution...