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Midgetman is the nickname given the missile intended to succeed the MX nuclear weapon, which itself has been the subject of bitter fights the past four years...
Although Congress has limited the total MX deployment to 50, half of what Reagan originally asked, the Pentagon wants $1.8 billion next year for 21 more MX weapons for test purposes...
Midgetman's chief support came from a 1983 presidential commission appointed by Reagan to come up with a basing plan for the 10-warhead MX...
While the commission said the MX should be deployed in stationary silos, it called for development of a mobile, single-warhead missile in the future...
...commission argued that in a crisis, the Midgetman would be a less tempting target for a Soviet first strike because it would take numerous attacking warheads to destroy a mobile missile and even then the attackers would only knock out one missile. That contrasts with the stationary MX and its 10 warheads...