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Although put in a simplistic form, this scenario essentially duplicates the conclusion of the recently released Scowcroft report on America's strategic nuclear forces. The player of the game is the Soviet leadership the "enemy" is the U.S. ICBM force, and the end of the game brings greater stability and a more assured peace. But before that game gets moving, the Scowcroft report recommended a long, costly, and potentially dangerous "time-out" in the form of the MX missile...
President Reagan and Congress last week accepted the need for this "time out," appropriating more than half a billion dollars for flight testing of the missile. Now the U.S. will almost certainly adopt the MX--a measure which despite the Scowcroft recommendation it gained is in no way essential to the commission's argument...
...President's Commission on Strategic Forces, chaired by lieutenant General Brent Scowcroft, was originally charged with finding a basing mode for the MX missile after Congress correctly rejected "dense pack." The Commission included such defense specialists as Alexander Haig and Harold Brown, and The New Republic calls their product "one of the most serious and sophisticated official documents of the nuclear era." The members of the Commission made three basic recommendations. Discard the notion of U.S. strategic inferiority by considering simultaneously bombers, missiles and submarines, deploy 100 MXs, each with 10 warheads, in hardened Minuteman silos, and for the future...
...Hill. The commission has argued that the combination of recommendations is a seamless package, but an effort in Congress to jettison the MX and vote only on the Midgetman seems likely. "Few, if any, will consider our recommendations an optimal solution," summed up retired Air Force Lieut. General Brent Scowcroft, the panel's chairman. "If such were available, this commission probably would not have been convened...
...rescue seem any closer for the beleaguered MX missile, a prime object of congressional skepticism and budget cutting. A blue-ribbon bipartisan presidential commission headed by Brent Scowcroft, who was National Security Adviser to President Gerald Ford, is expected to recommend this week that production and deployment of the MX proceed. But Congressmen briefed on the commission's report predicted a tough fight with no assurance that the President will win. The only slight relief the White House could find in the reaction to the MX was a decision by the nation's Roman Catholic bishops to revise...