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Lindsay said Draper, which he said gets three quarters of its income from defense-related contracts, designs and produces guidance systems for the Trident, Cruise, and MX missiles...
...other options under study are even more problematic. "Hard Tunnel" would bury the missiles 3,000 ft. down inside mountains; the "Big Bird" scheme calls for a fleet of mammoth airborne MX launchers. With the more far-fetched "Orbital Basing," MX warheads would be put into orbit only after a Soviet missile launching, and the U.S. warheads could then be directed at Soviet targets at the Government's discretion. The extra time to make momentous decisions would be valuable; the delay in deciding where to put the missiles...
...still no Rx for the MX...
...greater concern is the uncertainty over how to deploy MX, the next generation of land-based nuclear missiles. The Ford and Carter Administrations had planned to shuttle 200 MXs among thousands of shelters over a vast tract of Western desert. Reagan scrapped the scheme, proposing to store the first 36 missiles temporarily in existing silos. Congress rejected that idea. Now congressional impatience has hardened to outrage. Last month the Republican-controlled Senate Armed Services Committee refused to appropriate funds for the initial allotment of nine missiles (at $160 million each) until a permanent decision is made on deployment...
Reinstituting the draft would do more to diminish the danger of nuclear war than the MX supermissile and B-1 bomber programs combined. No one else dares to say it. I understand, of course, that risking a nuclear doomsday is preferable to losing the votes of the 18-year-olds...