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The leading antagonist of the MX was Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia, the ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee. Nunn and others have criticized the Government's plan to place the highly accurate ten-warhead missiles in existing Minuteman missile silos. Critics say that the immobile basing system makes...
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was in Europe at a NATO meeting, so National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane was dispatched to Dole's office on Capitol Hill to bargain with Nunn. Despite the aggressive lobbying effort, the Administration gave in to Nunn's insistence on only twelve additional missiles in fiscal...
The Alvarezes did not stop there. Basing their calculations on the atmospheric consequences of the explosion of Krakatoa, they roughly estimated how much dust the impact of the asteroid would have thrown into the atmosphere, how long sunlight would have been blocked from the earth's surface, and what kinds...
Goetz's four teenage victims proved to have numerous arrests among them. The police recovered three screwdrivers from the jackets of two of the victims. They were not so much weapons as tools of their trade: robbing video-game machines. Canty's brother, free-basing cocaine while talking to a...
Even if the Administration begins deploying the MX as scheduled by the fall of 1986, the missile will still serve only as a transition to other, less vulnerable weapons. A presidential commission headed by retired Air Force Lieut. General Brent Scowcroft, which reluctantly recommended basing the MX in Minuteman silos...