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...California. The texts of the measures varied some, but the spirit was the same: most called for immediate negotiations for a verifiable freeze in the production, testing and deployment of all nuclear weapons, missiles and delivery systems. In addition to supporting the freeze, Montana citizens voted against basing the MX missile anywhere in the state. Although voters in the city of Denver advocated a nuclear freeze, a statewide constitutional amendment aimed at moving or shutting down the Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons plant near Denver was handily defeated...
...perceive any situation in which the deliberate initiation of nuclear warfare, on however restricted a scale, can be morally justified." Speaking to those who work in nuclear arms factories, it instructs, "We have judged immoral even the threat to use such weapons." Ethical questions are raised about the new MX missile system. And using the language of nuclear freeze proposals, which the Reagan Administration strongly opposes, the document calls for "immediate, bilateral verifiable agreements to halt the testing, production and deployment of new strategic systems...
...Western Europe to repel a Soviet conventional attack present "an unacceptable moral risk" because it is unlikely that any battlefield nuclear exchange could be limited. (NATO's tactical nuclear weapons are supposed to offset the Soviets' 2.6-to-l advantage in tanks and other conventional weapons.) The MX missile, the bishops say, might be destabilizing; since it threatens the Soviets' missiles, it could prompt Moscow to launch a pre-emptive strike...
...admire the bishops for trying to make faith relevant to every aspect of life," he says. "But they go too far when they get into specific judgments about military strategy and weapons systems such as the MX." By addressing matters outside their expertise, Novak suggests, the church's spiritual leaders are also inviting challenge to their moral authority on matters of faith as well as politics. "It makes everything else they say subject to questioning." The church's authority, he says, "is a treasure not to be squandered, or to be wasted like water spilled upon the sands...
...MX. A decision on how to base the MX missile is due by Dec. 1. Congress last spring rejected Reagan's "interim" scheme to place the missile in existing Minuteman silos, and it refused to appropriate $1 billion for construction of the first MXs until the Administration could come up with a more suitable basing mode. The Pentagon is expected to recommend "Dense Pack," a controversial plan to deploy the missiles in superhardened new silos very close together. The aim is to protect the missiles through "fratricide": an attacking enemy missile would be able to knock out some...