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WASHINGTON--The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee released a report yesterday supporting large new expenditures on the Midgetman nuclear missile, the first blow in what is expected to be a new Capitol Hill fight over administration budget increases for atomic weapons...
...Aspin, D-Wis., said his analysis of the single-warhead missile showed Midgetman is "that rare kind of weapon that should garner support from liberals and conservatives alike...
...Midgetman is the nickname given the missile intended to succeed the MX nuclear weapon, which itself has been the subject of bitter fights the past four years...
...Midgetman is intended to join the land-based leg of America's nuclear triad, which includes bombers and missile-firing submarines...
Under the Soviet proposal, the development of any new strategic weapon would be banned or severely restricted. The worst-case interpretation of the provision would forbid the two new American land-based ICBMs--the MX and Midgetman--as well as a new Trident II submarine-launched missile that has a hard-target kill capacity. Yet it would somehow permit inclusion of the two new Soviet ICBMs, the SS-24 and SS-25, which are roughly the equivalent of the MX and Midgetman...