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...rising antinuclear sentiment has contributed to an erosion of support for the Administration's proposed military buildup, which is already in trouble because of worries over huge budget deficits. Last week the Armed Services Committee voted to eliminate $2.1 billion in funds for deploying the first 40 MX intercontinental missiles. The Administration, which has still not decided how to base these new weapons, wanted to house them temporarily in existing Minuteman silos. Critics charged that this ad hoc system would make them vulnerable to a Soviet strike. The committee made $1.1 billion more in cuts before sending the fiscal...
...busy session last night, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) deferred setting a date for another open meeting and voted on IT shareholder resolutions, which covered topics ranging from infant-formula marketing to the MX missile...
Some Americans may think the MX missile is a batty idea, but it is the height of orthodoxy compared with a weapons scheme described in this month's American Heritage magazine. Just after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, a Pennsylvania dental surgeon named Lytle S. Adams hit upon the idea of arming bats with tiny incendiary bombs and letting them loose over Japan. The bomber bats would supposedly seek refuge in the eaves of Japanese houses, where their deadly cargoes-equipped with a 15-hr, timer-would explode and set off fires...
...more credible deterrent to Soviet aggression, thereby reducing U.S. reli ance on a nuclear last resort. A case can be made that the politically difficult decision of reinstituting the draft would do more to strengthen American defense posture?and hence to diminish the danger of war?than the MX supermissile and the B-l bomber programs combined...
...defense programs, since arms control can set rules of the road for both sides and thus lessen the chances of a collision. But they have had as much difficulty, and demonstrated as much ambivalence, in their quest for "real" arms control as in their ludicrously meandering search for an MX basing plan. The SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) process contributed modestly, marginally, but still significantly to the avoidance of nuclear war. Reagan has in effect suspended that process. He has promised, but not yet presented, what he says will be an improved substitute with the goal of deep cuts, primarily...