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...next few years only to learn that the nation prepared for the wrong war. That is what can happen if the majority of the members of Congress, the public and the press continue to view the publicity given to exotic systems such as the B-1 bomber, the MX missile and its deployment scheme, and the nuclear carriers as evidence that the defense budget has been rigorously examined by Congress. That is never so Congress trusts the Armed Services and Appropriations Committees. There is reason to fear that the trust is misplaced. Voters must take the initiative in forcing...
...ground-launched cruise missiles]. We could do the same thing. Tomorrow we could come out with our own program for deploying Soviet missiles near the U.S., say in the north somewhere, and then offer not to go ahead with that deployment if the U.S. would give up the MX [America's still undeployed ICBM]. That is fine as propaganda, perhaps. But there is already a balance offerees in Europe. We have our missiles and you have yours, on submarines and bombers, which can reach our territory...
...Soviet Union's strategic arsenal, the 5,500 warheads it deploys on ICBMS. In return, the U.S., which has only 2,152 warheads on ICBMS, would have to give up half of its 4,928 submarine-based warheads but could proceed with production of the planned MX ballistic missile, the low-flying cruise missile and the B-l bomber. Nonetheless, the Administration has said that when negotiations begin, all systems "will be on the bargaining table...
...major strategic-weapons program, will have to agree to reduce some of their existing systems in order to prevent the U.S. from deploying some of the weapons planned in the Reagan defense buildup. Says one senior official: "What do the Soviets see? They see us opening production lines for MX missiles, cruise missiles, B-l bombers, and soon Stealth bombers and Trident II missiles. We could go on building them in definitely." Soviet officials object to that kind of argument as intimidation. Said Radomir Bogdanov, an arms-control expert at Moscow's USA Institute: "It's the usual...
...order to shield U.S. land-based missiles from a Soviet first strike, Reagan last week told the Pentagon that he favors what is known as the "dense pack" method for basing the new MX. Up to 100 MX missiles would be clustered in deep, hardened silos within a 12-sq.-mi. area. Enemy warheads coming into such a small area would cause the first of them to explode the others. Theoretically, some of the MX missiles in the dense pack would survive and be able to launch through the rubble after the attack...