Word: mx
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Weinberger is expected to present his list of possible military cuts to the President at a meeting tentatively set for this week. Since Pentagon spending is linked to decisions on what kind of MX missile system to develop and which new strategic bomber to build, Reagan may reveal his long-awaited decisions on those programs at the same time...
...Approve the production of 100 MX missiles and their deployment in 1,000 shelters on land in Nevada owned by the military. This would be a scaled-down version of former President Carter's plan to deploy 200 missiles in 4,600 shelters scattered through Utah and Nevada...
...even in Adair County, Iowa, with the struggles over the MX missile and stock market jitters only muffled sounds on a far, bright horizon, there is the shadow of troubles ahead. Those fields that now are offering up such bounty are so intensively farmed, in their owners' mad race against high costs, that the topsoil is washing away at an alarming rate. When the Adair prairies were broken some 150 years ago, the topsoil was 12-to 14-in. thick. Today it averages 6 to 8 in. And from a small plane in those glistening skies the fields show...
...debate over where to base the MX missile system has consumed such vast amounts of presidential attention and public print that citizens can be forgiven for some confusion over why President Reagan-and Jimmy Carter before him-decided that the U.S. needs an MX system in the first place. There is a one-word answer: vulnerability. In the opinion of many U.S. arms experts, Minuteman, the principal American intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) since the mid-1960s, has become an exposed target-and therefore conceivably a temptation-for a pre-emptive Soviet attack. And if the 1,000 Minuteman missiles...
Many military and political experts, including all those in key posts in the Reagan Administration, have come to accept vulnerability as an unhappy fact of life, fully justifying MX's price tag of as much as $100 billion. Also, concern over the Minuteman's jeopardy is at the core of a much more general anxiety: that U.S. defenses across the board have become vulnerable...