Word: midgetman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last he could make the trick shot, he unveiled it in a pickup game with other lawmakers. Representative Gore studied the arms race with the same intensity, working 10 hours a week for a year before championing a simple solution to the Soviet first-strike threat--the single-warhead Midgetman missile. He crammed his mind with facts about computers and technology, coining the term information superhighway way back in 1979. And so meticulous were Gore's preparations for his 1996 debate with Jack Kemp, the putative heir to Ronald Reagan's Great Communicator throne, that the Vice President demanded...
...still a MAD, MAD world, but it is becoming less so. Last week George Bush terminated the Midgetman missile program, suspended work on the MX and halted production of the B-2 Stealth bomber and the advanced cruise missile. A day later, Russian President Boris Yeltsin responded by stopping production of two long-range bombers and cruise missiles and called on both sides to forgo targeting each other...
...flurry of budget whacking, the committee canceled future production of the B-2 Stealth bomber (1991 cost cut: $1.9 billion), put both the MX and Midgetman mobile missiles on hold (1991 saving: $2.5 billion) and ordered a cutback of 129,500 service personnel, three times what the Pentagon proposed. The Senate completed floor action on its version of a military-spending bill and agreed on an $18 billion cut, including the Milstar satellite communications system (1991 price tag: $1.6 billion) and the C-17 transport (1991 saving: $1.4 billion) but salvaging a pair of the controversial B-2s. Clearly distressed...
...redundant entirety, Ronald Reagan's so-called strategic modernization program. "Modernization" is a euphemism for breeding a whole aviary of brand-new weapon systems: not one but two long-range bombers (the B- 1 and B-2 "Stealth"), not one but two ICBMs (the ten-warhead MX and the Midgetman), not one but two species of cruise missiles (air launched and sea launched), plus a submarine missile. The cost: nearly $100 billion over the next five years...
Even now the nightmare of a Soviet nuclear attack continues to darken the waking hours of Western military and political leaders and the theoreticians who advise them. The Bush Administration remains committed to an expensive, redundant and provocative array of new strategic nuclear weapons -- the MX and Midgetman intercontinental missiles, the B-1 and B-2 (Stealth) bombers and the Trident II submarine-launched missile. These programs are monuments to old thinking. They are throwbacks to the days when the strategists accepted, as an article of their dark faith, the vulnerability of the U.S. to Kremlin crapshooters...