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Superweapon: The Making of MX

Superweapon: The Making of MX

Edwards, John

Paperback

Weaponry & VehiclesWeapons of Mass Destruction

ISBN10: 0393335666
ISBN13: 9780393335668
Publisher: W W Norton & Co
Published: Oct 1 1982
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Missile X is a nuclear weapon of unprecedented destructive power. Once deployed, it could destroy all Soviet land missiles in one thiry-minute barrage. If based on land, it will require a construction effort greater than the Panama Canal or the Great Wall of China.

But the superweapon is also vulnerable to attack, and its construction has enormous economic and political consequences. Thus, since its inception in 1970, MX has been fiercely debated in the White House, the Pentagon, and on Capitol Hill. President Jimmy Carter called it, initially, the craziest thing I ever heard, and yet only two years later, caught up in the implacable logic of the nuclear arms race, he would approve an expanded budget for its development.

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