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...strongly support military expenditures for conventional weapons as well as for upgrading our officer and enlisted cadres. But I am against our generals' spending astronomical funds on hardware, such as the MX missile, which our troops can't even use properly...
...MX is an environmental issue and not a question of defense. The desert environment of Utah is too fragile to absorb the kind of abuse it gets from being the Government's nuclear-waste dump. How can the nation permit a state with five national parks to become the country's outhouse...
Lost in the planning turmoil was the original MX design, with its 4,600 shelters scattered across the deserts of Utah and Nevada. Three billion dollars has already been invested in that system, but it is opposed by powerful Republican Senators Jake Garn of Utah and Paul Laxalt of Nevada. There is little question that Reagan wants to avoid crossing his powerful political friends. White House Counsellor Ed Meese is believed to feel that the original MX system was devised to fit Jimmy Carter's failed hopes for a nuclear arms limitation treaty and, thus, the multiple-shelters idea...
...this issue Reagan, who has slain the congressional dragons one after another, will face another kind of beast. The Air Force, which will run any new MX system, is dubious that the technical problems of an air-launch system can be solved in the time available. Texas Senator John Tower, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, is expressing his concern around Washington that each air-launched missile could cost $1 billion. He favors a variant of the land-based plan, which actually was begun under Republican Gerald Ford...
...line a distant second and third. If all that tonnage is hard to get the teeth into, conceptually, the International Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers is happy to calculate that it would provide ten single-scoop cones for every human being on earth, an idea that might make the MX missile unnecessary-at least until the chocolate chip...