Word: mx
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many work there? Because industry has become reliant on the military to support its bloated size. How did the military accomplish this bloating? Through Reagan-era oversizing that did not, repeat did not, cause the Cold War to come to an end. After all, how can the MX missile take credit for thirty years of industrial decline in a foreign nation? There's no answer...
Russia will now scrap its SS-18s and its highly capable SS-24s. In fact, said Yeltsin, he had already ordered the SS-18s taken off active status. The U.S. will dismantle its MX missiles and will bring its Minuteman III missiles down to one warhead apiece. The U.S. will also cut by more than half the number of warheads on submarine-based missiles...
...illustrate his point, he asked the audience: "How many of you own an MX missile?" As the audience laughed, he added: "How many of you own a VCR? Not one of those VCRs was made...
...still a MAD, MAD world, but it is becoming less so. Last week George Bush terminated the Midgetman missile program, suspended work on the MX and halted production of the B-2 Stealth bomber and the advanced cruise missile. A day later, Russian President Boris Yeltsin responded by stopping production of two long-range bombers and cruise missiles and called on both sides to forgo targeting each other...
That is a fairly easy sacrifice for the U.S. The MX is highly controversial in Congress, and only 50 have been deployed. The U.S. has 300 other, older MIRVed ICBMs. For their part, the Soviets would have to give up 763 such weapons...