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...will involve intercontinental ballistic missiles. The nation's land-based missile force?1,052 Minuteman and Titan missiles stored in silos scattered across seven states?is widely feared to be vulnerable to a Soviet surprise attack. Reagan and Weinberger inherited from the Carter Administration a plan to shuttle 200 MX (Missile Experimental) launchers, carrying ten warheads each, among 4,600 shelters along a vast "drag strip" in Utah and Nevada...
...MX would be bigger, more powerful and more accurate than a Titan or Minuteman, and the Soviets, in theory, would never know which of the shelters to target with their missiles if they decided to attack. The scheme has been criticized both because of its cost?in excess of $75 billion?and because it would tear up enormous chunks of America's West. (The drag strip would occupy an area the size of New Jersey...
...leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon Church), an especially powerful force in Utah. In addition, Weinberger reportedly is concerned that the Soviets, unless restrained by a new SALT agreement, could use the eight years it would take to complete the land-based MX system to deploy enough of their own intercontinental warheads to wipe out all 4,600 of the shelters...
...fiscal 1981 and 1982 budgets, he says, "we needed to do so much so quickly that the priority problem did not loom as large as it will in the future. Now, for '83 we are coming upon situations that will require some choices." Beyond the B-l and MX, some of the major choices involve...
...these schemes attempt to outwit Soviet missiles with what the Pentagon calls PLU: preservation of location uncertainty. So far it is only the MX project itself, scheduled for completion at the end of the decade, that is maintaining a high degree...