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...Cambridge would be the first to ban existing companies. Charles Stark Drapen Laboratories, located in Tech Square, has contracts with the Department of Defense totaling $140,000 and the firm's officials have said that 85 percent of Draper's work including development of guidance systems for the MX and Poseidon missiles-would be outlawed...
...UNITED STATES Senate yesterday took the final steps toward approving the MX Misaile by voting to fund the program. Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed the same bill. President Reagon and the United States Congress have compromised American security and increased the probability of nuclear war by proposing and approving an expensive, ever complex, vulnerable weapon while overlooking an extant, cheap, simple and potent...
...adopt a "bilateral, verifiable freeze." By freezing the nuclear arms race now, we can sit down with the Soviets and look at what we have, not what we will have or might have. But if we continue to be hard-nosed about deploying new systems such as the MX and Pershing II, the arms race will never...
...budget, which in theory was to have been wrapped up and in effect on Oct. 1. The $263 billion package contains $247 billion for the Department of Defense and $16 billion of military monies in other budget bills. The House approved funds for the nation's first 21 MX missiles and for the B-1 bomber but voted against producing chemical weaponry that had been requested by the Administration. On the Senate side, legislators voted in favor of the new chemical weapons, and will probably appropriate $2 billion more for the military. Even so, both versions of the bill...
...folly of MX should be apparent by now. It is only the inherent inertia of any large weapons system with a complex sum of industrial, defense, and governmental special interests that keeps the missile alive at all. America should cut its losses now, stop work on the giant missile, and move toward-those systems that enhance deterrence--small, mobile missiles and submarines. Of course, reduction of nuclear weapons is a desirable goal, but it can be done in much better, safer ways. "Build-down" should be recognized as a confused smokescreen for all the parties in Washington, and should...