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Since the first Soviet INF proposal of October, 1979 the USSR has tried to prevent or at least reduce the planned deployment of 572 American missiles in Europe. By trying to prevent or limit Undeployment of the U.S. missiles scheduled for basing in Europe the Soviets are trying to preserve...
The commission also had a creative response to the issue of missile vulnerability. In his 1980 campaign for the presidency, Ronald Reagan warned that a "window of vulnerability" hung over U.S. missile silos, opening them to a pre-emptive first-strike attack by the Soviet Union. So strong were his...
Caught in the middle was Republican Pete Domenici, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, who hoped to be the architect of a face-saving compromise. After House Democrats had passed a budget plan that would raise defense spending approximately 4%, the moderate New Mexico Senator believed that the White House...
Enter the MX--missile experimental--billed as the invulnerable missile needed to restore that credibility. Its chief virtue was to be a basing system that would shield or hide it from Soviet warheads. In addition, the missile boasted more warheads and improved accuracy.
Yet for the purely defensive purposes of deterrence, it would have sufficed to put the old-line Minuteman aboard the improved basing system--saving billions of dollars. And now a second presidential commission on the MX basing system has suggested that the new missiles be placed in the same Minuteman...