Word: warhead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...needs a new small missile with a single warhead. Or should it be bigger and have three warheads? A mobile missile, the Reagan Administration has said, will be less vulnerable to a first strike and thus produce a more stable arms-control situation. Or should mobile missiles, as the Administration has also said, be banned in any new arms agreement? "I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly," said Alice to the Caterpillar in Wonderland. "Being so many sizes in a day is very confusing." Her lament & fits the debate over the proposed Midgetman missile...
...Aspin, D-Wis., said his analysis of the single-warhead missile showed Midgetman is "that rare kind of weapon that should garner support from liberals and conservatives alike...
Midgetman's chief support came from a 1983 presidential commission appointed by Reagan to come up with a basing plan for the 10-warhead...
While the commission said the MX should be deployed in stationary silos, it called for development of a mobile, single-warhead missile in the future...
...alike. It would, of course, be hard to advocate putting millions of dollars of technology into space if the transport were to blow up every twenty trips or so. The point is, after all, that the shuttle was not a rocket, not a missile with a sardine-can-like warhead of astronauts. In the public mind, its very essence was "to shuttle," to safely carry human beings into space--and back again. The shuttle was in this sense a symbol of security that belied the otherwise well-recognized dangers of our technological...