From: utzoo!decvax!cca!hplabs!hplabsb!soreff
Newsgroups: net.politics
Title: Re: MX Dense Packing
Article-I.D.: hplabsb.1151
Posted: Mon Nov 29 14:07:45 1982
Received: Wed Dec  1 08:58:29 1982
References: cbosgd.2841

If the MX missiles are to be close together, what is to stop the USSR from
simply using a single, huge blast to knock them out, thus avoiding the
fratricide problem? The USSR has built and tested a 60 megaton bomb. Is there
any particular problem in building and delivering a bomb large enough to
destroy the entire MX system? Remember that we have to assume that this is
in the context of a soviet first strike, so presumably they don't have to
harden the launch site for this weapon, and its size would limited by the
biggest thing their liquid fueled boosters could lift (presumably several
hundred tons). -Jeffrey Soreff