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Planning started eight years ago on such an MX, or Missile Experimental, but the weapon has long been surrounded by controversy over how it should be deployed. In underground trenches? Inside airplanes? Or moved around within a vast network of underground silos? Nor was there even agreement on the missile itself. One Administration faction favored a longer, heavier version of the proposed submarine-launched Trident II, which could be launched from either sea or land. Still others, worried about the estimated $30 billion cost of deploying the 200 proposed missiles, denounced all versions...
...SALT II agreement permits only one new missile system between now and 1985, and President Carter wanted to reach his decision before meeting Leonid Brezhnev next Saturday. Since the Soviets have already complained about the MX as a provocation, he wanted to announce his move with as little fanfare as possible. So Deputy Press Secretary Rex Grannum last week merely confirmed previous press reports that Carter had approved the MX. America's first new ICBM in a decade will be the biggest allowed by SALT. Weighing 190,000 Ibs., more than twice as much as Minuteman, it will carry...
...half forward at that meeting. While the Soviets now claimed the option of MlRVing their existing types of ICBMs with up to ten re-entry vehicles?an unacceptable proliferation from the American standpoint?they did finally concede that the U.S. had the right to put ten warheads on the MX. Since the U.S. was barred by SALT I from building anything as big and powerful as the SS-18 heavy rocket, it was politically important to the Carter Administration that SALT II allow the U.S. at least to match the SS-18 in number of warheads on the MX. That...
...major unsettled issues, Gromyko seemed to be under instructions to make concessions. The Soviets accepted, once and for all, a freeze on the number of warheads on existing ICBMS at the number already tested, and reaffirmed that the U.S. had the right to put ten warheads on the MX...
...increasing U.S. military expenditures and the quality of U.S. nuclear weapons. Having already boosted the original military expenditure proposal in this year's federal budget, and having obtained the resignation of Paul Warnke as head of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the Carter Administration talks of building the MX missile, a mobile, land-based missile that would be shuttled from launching site to launching site, thereby frustrating Soviet efforts to locate American missiles. If the MX is approved, SALT II will, paradoxically, have pushed the arms race to an even more dangerous level...