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...have been particularly strained by worries that Reagan's simplistic East-West world view would never translate into a coherent foreign policy. Compounding the problem were conflicting statements from Washington on sensitive nuclear policy issues. Hawkishly, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger announced that the U.S. would build a neutron warhead; Secretary of State Alexander Haig immediately noted that no decision had been made to deploy it. Reagan mused aloud to a group of newspaper editors at the White House about a possibility that Western allies dread: a limited nuclear war fought on European territory. Said he: "I could see where...
...more here than meets the eye. First, the Soviet missiles are already in place, while the ones proposed for NATO are still in the testing stage. Second, there is a considerable disparity in the range and potency of the weapons involved. The new U.S. missiles carry only one warhead, as do the SS-4s and SS-5s. But the SS-20s are equipped to carry three warheads. Thus Reagan's proposal really calls for a trade-off of 572 American nuclear warheads for more than 1,000 Soviet ones. In his speech, Reagan claimed that the Soviets...
There is no doubt why the Soviets are so alarmed by the prospect of new U.S. missiles in Europe. A Pershing II based in West Germany could drop a 20-kiloton warhead within 80 ft. of a target in the Soviet Union some 1,000 miles away just eight minutes after firing. The ground-launched cruise missile, or GLCM, is even more accurate, and able to avoid radar by hugging the terrain, following maps in its internal guidance system...
...only two months after his inauguration, when he appeared at the Brittany naval base of Ile-Longue to announce plans to build a seventh nuclear submarine by 1990. The addition will enable the French navy's Strategic Ocean Force to keep three subs, each equipped with 16 multiple-warhead M-4 missiles, on high seas patrol at all times...
Those who opposed the move--part of an estimated $180.8-billion military buildup over the next six years--gave a variety of reasons. Some opposed deployment of the MX in any form, while others specifically disagreed with Reagan's method of basing the nuclear warhead-equipped missiles...