Word: mx
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lobbvists were urged, on the other hand, to invite comparisons with the defense budget, for which Reagan has proposed the largest funding increase in U.S. history. Charts distributed to students showed how reducing the military proposals by two MX missiles, two Tridents and one B-1 bomber would free enough money to compensate for all the proposed cuts to the Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL) program...
...pressure, agreed to deploy in Western Europe new advanced missiles targeted against the Soviet Union, the USSR invaded Afghanistan and the Carter Doctrine was proclaimed, calling for still further increases in the military budget, including not only intervention forces but also preparations for a peacetime draft and the MX missile system...a major contribution to an escalating arms race. War clouds are gathering. We entering a period of what some are calling "The New Cold...
...retirement pay account for almost one-fourth of the budget and are hard to reduce because of the need for a steady stream of recruits and re-enlistments in lieu of a draft. The controversial strategic superweapons of the future, such as the B-1 bomber program and the MX missile, will be debated to determine whether the U.S. should commit itself to such huge funding in the years ahead, but even entirely eliminating these two programs this year would reduce actual 1983 outlays by "only" about $5 billion. Operating costs, maintenance, training and ammunition have always been favorite congressional...
...MX. This system, estimated to cost more than $30 billion for the multiple-warhead nuclear missile alone, has been in trouble on the Hill because the weapons will be vulnerable to Soviet attack unless the Administration can figure out how to base them safely. Last week Ronald Reagan reversed course again and said that it was not economically or strategically feasible to "superharden" the concrete of old Minuteman silos, which are to be the temporary base of the first 40 missiles. If Congress decides not to buy any MXs until it knows where to put them, $1.4 billion...
...Administration cannot make up its mind about how to base the MX missile, but the Air Force has successfully staged the first test launching of a dummy MX at a site near Las Vegas. The projectile had no propellants, electronics or warhead, but was the same size, shape and weight as an actual MX. At left, the missile is ejected from a canister by steam and gas pressure, a system adapted from submarine missile-launching devices. As the mock-up rises into the air, some of the rectangular plastic pads, designed to steady the missile until it leaves the canister...