Word: packed
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...President's men insisted that the issue was not Dense Pack but "modernization" of the land leg of the nation's nuclear triad. At the least, they argued, MX production should proceed as a bargaining chip in the START talks. But even Alabama Republican Jack Edwards, who directed pro-MX forces, conceded that the missile "is too expensive to use simply as a chip." The strongest argument for Reagan's position was offered by Michel, who sought to sow doubts about the ability of Congressmen to assess such technical matters. "In every age there are always well...
...calls in the House since June 1951) with a reputation as a champion of defense spending, rose as the second-ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee. Said Bennett: "There is too much money at stake to spend it on such an incredible type of defense as Dense Pack. I believe it will be useless by the time it is in place...
Then Nunn drew a remarkable admission from General Vessey. He asked whether the Joint Chiefs all supported Dense Pack. With a rueful half-smile, Vessey conceded that three of the five did not. That confirmed the rumor circulating in the House. Vessey, an Army general, later clearly implied that only he and Air Force Chief of Staff Charles A. Gabriel had favored going ahead with Dense Pack. Opposed to Dense Pack until there is greater technical evidence of its ability to survive a Soviet first strike were Army Chief of Staff Edward C. Meyer, Chief of Naval Operations James...
...Dense Pack fiasco astonished congressional observers. The big question: How could anyone high in the White House have expected to conceal such a significant split among the Joint Chiefs from key defense legislators, who are often social as well as professional associates of the top generals...
...Dense Pack was, in fact, mainly a creation of National Security Council Consultant Thomas Reed, a former Secretary of the Air Force, and National Security Adviser William Clark, who has no military expertise. Under a Dec. 1 deadline to come up with a basing system, the President rushed to oversell a plan whose flaws probably foredoomed it. That was pushing even Reagan's prowess as a communicator much...