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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Midgetman in Wonderland | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

...original goal was to build a missile that could survive a Soviet attack in sufficient numbers to pose a credible threat of retaliation. The big, three-warhead Minuteman is vulnerable to destruction in its silos. The ten- warhead MX is no answer. Though it was supposed to be mobile, the Pentagon could never come up with an acceptable basing mode. The 50 MX's that Congress has agreed to fund are to be parked in Minuteman silos, where they too could be sitting ducks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Midgetman in Wonderland | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

Enter Midgetman, the one-warhead missile recommended in 1983 by a presidential commission headed by onetime National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft. At 38,000 lbs., it would be small enough to be hauled around by a trucklike vehicle. The Soviets could never pinpoint its location, and to destroy the entire area over which 500 or so Midgetmen might roam would require launching nearly every warhead at the Kremlin's command. Congress and the Administration embraced Midgetman, and the Air Force produced a design. The fiscal 1987 budget proposes spending $1.4 billion, double this year's figure, for development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Midgetman in Wonderland | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

...getting the 100 big MX missiles that it originally requested, is bridling at the cost of Midgetman--perhaps $44 billion eventually. Defense officials and congressional allies contend that the expense could be cut in half by building 170 "Super-Midgetman" missiles, each weighing 90,000 lbs. and carrying three warheads, which would still be mobile. That would defeat the purpose, cry Midgetman boosters. Reducing the number of launchers, making them larger and therefore harder to move quickly, and putting more warheads on each would make the entire arsenal more vulnerable to surprise attack. A secret report to be presented this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Midgetman in Wonderland | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Report Supports New Missile | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

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