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CONGRESS, at Reagan's urging, passed funding for the convenient MX. But that gullibility should not prevent it from acting on the more nearly solutions Scowcroft had to offer. After essentially reducing the MX to sugar for its recommendations, the Commission introduced a final pill which shouldn't be hard to swallow at all. The pill is Midgetman, a small, mobile missile with a single warhead that could be produced in large numbers, if needed, at relatively low cost. Such a non-threatening, land-based ICBM follows naturally from the Commission's argument that the "window of vulnerability" was never...
IMMEDIATELY AFTER Reagan's highly supportive letter arrived on Capitol Hill, the House Defense Subcommittee for Appropriations voted to release $560 million for flight testing of MX. The Senate followed suit two days later, and in all likelihood the MX...
Reagan has called the recommendation a "desirable evolution to ward small, single warhead ICBMs" it may have been MX that ensured the White House would take Midgetman and the other points seriously. But the giant ICBM will dominate the years between now and any deployment of a smaller weapon probably in the mid 1990s...
...technology for a new smaller missile wouldn't be that much different from the 20 year old Minuteman, and there is no "emergency" to require anything further. If the President really wants "attainment of stability at the lowest possible level of forces," then his only reasons for supporting MX are automatic. The reflexes of "bigger is better and "what the Russians have, we must have" have won another victory in Washington. Congress needs to rise above this glacial inertia while there is still time, move quickly past MX, and go with the weapons systems that ensure peace bombers, submarines...
Reagan's START concessions revive the MX missile...