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President Reagan and Congress last week accepted the need for this "time out," appropriating more than half a billion dollars for flight testing of the missile. Now the U.S. will almost certainly adopt the MX--a measure which despite the Scowcroft recommendation it gained is in no way essential to the commission's argument...
...President's Commission on Strategic Forces, chaired by lieutenant General Brent Scowcroft, was originally charged with finding a basing mode for the MX missile after Congress correctly rejected "dense pack." The Commission included such defense specialists as Alexander Haig and Harold Brown, and The New Republic calls their product "one of the most serious and sophisticated official documents of the nuclear era." The members of the Commission made three basic recommendations. Discard the notion of U.S. strategic inferiority by considering simultaneously bombers, missiles and submarines, deploy 100 MXs, each with 10 warheads, in hardened Minuteman silos, and for the future...
...Commission's line of reasoning was clear, and Reagan bought the conclusion appealing to Congress for MX funding. But the step he and Congress have accepted is still the one that should be eliminated...
...Commission began its argument by dealing a death blow to the emergency the MX is supposed to solve--Reagan's off quoted window of vulnerability." They did this primarily by broadening consideration of our strategic forces to include submarines as well as bombers and cruise missiles for many this redefinition may appear to be a truism; how could anyone overlook these highly effective and deferent weapons system. But the fact remains that Reagan at least in his rehtoric has done just that. By calling the US force "vulnerable" and "inferior". he has tried to create an erroneous impression that...
After correctly disposing of the "emergency" which MX is supposed to solve though the Commission still wanted the giant ICBM. Even as the original problem vanished. The New Yorker wrote, "its solution the missile--endured." The reason must be seen as primarily political. The President created the commission to find a basing made for MX the fact that in the process the experts invalidated much of the purpose for MX, and found a better solution for the "problem" anyway, doesn't seem to have hungered them or Congress. To ensure attention for the rent of the report, including the MX...