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Spending on the Midgetman would double, from $700 million this year to $1.4 billion, under the Reagan budget. The money would go for research, and a decision on whether to go ahead with full-scale development is likely to be made later this year...
Aspin's analysis said conservatives should like Midgetman because it "provides real deterrence" since it would take a large number of Soviet warheads to knock...
...liberals, the Midgetman is important because it cannot be a first-strike weapon; it can only be a retaliatory or a second-strike weapon," Aspin said...
...Midgetman's chief support came from a 1983 presidential commission appointed by Reagan to come up with a basing plan for the 10-warhead...
...commission argued that in a crisis, the Midgetman would be a less tempting target for a Soviet first strike because it would take numerous attacking warheads to destroy a mobile missile and even then the attackers would only knock out one missile. That contrasts with the stationary MX and its 10 warheads...