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Like most facilities engaged in military Research and Development work, the Lab gives no exterior sign of its involvement in the arms race. This involvement has included the development of the Polaris and Poseidon submarines (and their missiles), and now includes the MX missile, the cruise missile, and the Trident sub (with its missiles, the Trident...
...biggest single item in Reagan's 1982 defense budget is $2.4 billion for development of the MX missile, the new mobile intercontinental ballistic weapon. Prime contractors include Martin Marietta, TRW, Rockwell International and Boeing. Construction has so far been delayed because the Reagan Administration wants to review whether the weapon should be based on land, in submarines or, incredibly, in dirigibles...
...indeed, setting up their own studios? For one thing, it allows them to buy control of their films. With the profits from Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, Lucas, 36, could probably buy control of every film in Hollywood and have enough left over to pick up an MX missile: he is said to be worth more than $100 million. He is building a model-village production plant-a sort of Disney World for cineastes-in Northern California's Marin County. He has seven more Star Wars movies in mind. And he has just produced an adventure film...
...turn, the Air Force must have its new program--the MX missile--and, in compensation for the cancelled B-1, will probably get a new strategic bomber as well. And the Army, which already controls "tactical" nuclear weapons in Europe, will take charge of the new Pershing II and cruise missiles slated for deployment by NATO. The three services' ability to institute their individual programs, regardless of necessity, lends credence to John Kenneth Galbraith's warning to "never doubt the extraordinary power of the bureaucracy of the military establishment...
...administration's defense record while at the same time demanding new programs. In February 1980 Brown stated that "by all relevant measures, we remain the military equal or superior to the Soviet Union," while in his annual report to Congress he requested new funds for such programs as the MX missiles, cruise and Pershing II missiles for Europe, Trident submarine missile systems, and an extremely accurate new warhead for the Minuteman III missiles...