Word: mx
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still no Rx for the MX...
Reinstituting the draft would do more to diminish the danger of nuclear war than the MX supermissile and B-1 bomber programs combined. No one else dares to say it. I understand, of course, that risking a nuclear doomsday is preferable to losing the votes of the 18-year-olds...
...rising antinuclear sentiment has contributed to an erosion of support for the Administration's proposed military buildup, which is already in trouble because of worries over huge budget deficits. Last week the Armed Services Committee voted to eliminate $2.1 billion in funds for deploying the first 40 MX intercontinental missiles. The Administration, which has still not decided how to base these new weapons, wanted to house them temporarily in existing Minuteman silos. Critics charged that this ad hoc system would make them vulnerable to a Soviet strike. The committee made $1.1 billion more in cuts before sending the fiscal...
...busy session last night, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) deferred setting a date for another open meeting and voted on IT shareholder resolutions, which covered topics ranging from infant-formula marketing to the MX missile...
Some Americans may think the MX missile is a batty idea, but it is the height of orthodoxy compared with a weapons scheme described in this month's American Heritage magazine. Just after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, a Pennsylvania dental surgeon named Lytle S. Adams hit upon the idea of arming bats with tiny incendiary bombs and letting them loose over Japan. The bomber bats would supposedly seek refuge in the eaves of Japanese houses, where their deadly cargoes-equipped with a 15-hr, timer-would explode and set off fires...