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Lost in the planning turmoil was the original MX design, with its 4,600 shelters scattered across the deserts of Utah and Nevada. Three billion dollars has already been invested in that system, but it is opposed by powerful Republican Senators Jake Garn of Utah and Paul Laxalt of Nevada...
The living quarters feature the English country charm of the main drawing room, with its off-white walls, needlepoint rugs, and chairs covered in floral chintz. Scattered about are such remnants of the British Empire as a golden urn commemorating Nelson's victory at Trafalgar and a set of...
The chances are that one of the initial decisions to be announced will involve intercontinental ballistic missiles. The nation's land-based missile force?1,052 Minuteman and Titan missiles stored in silos scattered across seven states?is widely feared to be vulnerable to a Soviet surprise attack. Reagan and...
The most publicized plan for deploying the missiles is now nearly synonymous with MX itself and with the controversy surrounding it. Under this $40 billion scheme, the missiles would be wheeled around 200 high-security drag strips scattered over 10,000 miles in the desert wastes of the West. This...
This refusal to face the bomb squarely might help explain why the attempts to control nuclear proliferation have been so ineffectual. On the one hand, the world has seen more than 30 major good-faith efforts at containing proliferation-a dogged series of pacts, treaties and conferences, extending from three...