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...President too was generous with his time. Stacks and Brew interviewed him on a day when he was completing his MX speech, and was hoarse besides. "But Reagan was characteristically gracious and pleasant," says Stacks. "Even as his staff paced the room signaling their desire for an end to the interview, he invited more and more questions...
Approval of MX production funds by the House, which is scheduled to begin floor debate on the matter this week, is by no means certain. Almost unnoticed in the furor over the MX was that the Administration made no attempt to restore production funds for the Pershing II missile, which it is scheduled to begin deploying in Europe next year. Addabbo's subcommittee had eliminated those funds last month. After three successive Pershing test failures, congressional sentiment is opposed to full production until the missile's ailments are cured. Even so, the Administration apparently hopes to save...
...MX MISSILE, despite its repudiation last Monday in the House of Representatives: remains high on the Pentagon's wish list, and President Reagan has vowed to "take his case to the country" to save it Reagan's concern stems from a frightening but increasingly popular story. The story runs as follows: By 1984, the Soviet Union will have built enough ICBMs to destroy, in one blow, all of America's land based missile force. The Soviets will seize this golden opportunity having labored for decades to achieve it) and launch the attack, targeting our land-based missiles but leaving cities...
...window of vulnerability" to such attack, Reagan believes, extends from to 1987 But we need not despair, the Administration assures us, because, for only 35 billion, we can build the MX missile system, which will be safe from the new Red Peril Like its predecessor the "missile gap," however, the window of vulnerability is illusory. The Soviets, like us, could not rationally count on "winning" a nuclear war in one strike, so they are no more likely than we are to launch...
...combined explosive force of all of the missiles. But if one of them explodes first, the resulting blast will destroy or at least deflect all the others. This "fratricide" theory remains unproven, but it forms the core of the justification for the "dense pack" basing mode proposed for the MX. If it will work for the MX, as the Administration claims, then it should work for the existing Minuteman silos, which can be hardened relatively cheaply...