Word: mx
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That possibility is taken seriously by the Soviets, who are genuinely frightened of an all-out American buildup. They are worried that an array of new American weapons-the land-based MX and Pershing II, the submarine-launched Trident II, the B-l and "Stealth" bombers, and cruise missiles deployed on land, at sea and in the air-threaten them with vulnerability and inferiority by the 1990s...
...areas of flexibility. If Karpov tables a counterproposal, the Reagan Administration will face some hard choices. What if the Soviets are willing to cut their land-based warheads, but not so deeply as the U.S. wants? Will they do so only in exchange for the U.S. giving up the MX or some other system under development? And is the Administration willing to link START and the negotiations on Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) that are already under way in Geneva...
...next few years only to learn that the nation prepared for the wrong war. That is what can happen if the majority of the members of Congress, the public and the press continue to view the publicity given to exotic systems such as the B-1 bomber, the MX missile and its deployment scheme, and the nuclear carriers as evidence that the defense budget has been rigorously examined by Congress. That is never so Congress trusts the Armed Services and Appropriations Committees. There is reason to fear that the trust is misplaced. Voters must take the initiative in forcing...
...ground-launched cruise missiles]. We could do the same thing. Tomorrow we could come out with our own program for deploying Soviet missiles near the U.S., say in the north somewhere, and then offer not to go ahead with that deployment if the U.S. would give up the MX [America's still undeployed ICBM]. That is fine as propaganda, perhaps. But there is already a balance offerees in Europe. We have our missiles and you have yours, on submarines and bombers, which can reach our territory...
...order to shield U.S. land-based missiles from a Soviet first strike, Reagan last week told the Pentagon that he favors what is known as the "dense pack" method for basing the new MX. Up to 100 MX missiles would be clustered in deep, hardened silos within a 12-sq.-mi. area. Enemy warheads coming into such a small area would cause the first of them to explode the others. Theoretically, some of the MX missiles in the dense pack would survive and be able to launch through the rubble after the attack...