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...satellite killer to counter Soviet advances in that sphere (see following story). The mobile missile, called M-X (for "missile experimental"), would replace the Minuteman in a decade; by then the Soviets would presumably have the means to wipe out the Minuteman's fixed underground silos. The MX, at a total cost of at least $40 billion, could be moved rapidly along tracks ten to twelve miles long to escape detection and attack...
These, however, would not be replaced by a mobile land-based missile--namely the proposed MX missile that hawks are now pushing on Carter. By Ravenal's well-thought-out standards, that new kind of technology, which represents the direction in which the Pentagon is currently moving, would be disastrously destabilizing...
...Ford Administration's record-breaking defense budget proposal, permitting a $10 billion increase over the $110 billion budget for the current fiscal year. Moreover, most of this modest reduction is achieved by slowing down procurement of such major weapons systems as the B-1 bomber and the MX ballistic missile, and therefore does not represent a real curtailment in the long-term spending program. In fact, by stretching out the purchasing of these weapons rather than terminating them entirely, the Carter administration may in the long run increase their total cost, once the anticipated effects of inflation are taken into...
...administration has indicated that postponement of a final decision on the B-1 and MX programs is meant as a signal to the Soviet Union that the U.S. will await results from the upcoming SALT talks before proceeding with major new weapons systems. This approach is reminiscent of the Nixon administration's use of new weapons as "bargaining chips" in arms-control negotiations--a tactic that more often than not spurred Soviet efforts at developing similar weapons rather than mutual reductions at the negotiating table. Moreover, such bargaining chips frequently survive arms control negotiations and grow into full-fledged components...
...would be inclined to forgo continued development of a mobile U.S. nuclear missile launcher (the MX) if the Soviet Union will abandon deployment of its track-mounted launcher (the SS-20). Such mobile launchers greatly complicate the job of detecting and destroying each other's missiles and are considered a destabilizing element in a policy of mutual deterrence...