From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ixlpc!tomoc
Newsgroups: net.politics
Title: MX decision
Article-I.D.: ixlpc.134
Posted: Wed Nov 24 16:22:06 1982
Received: Thu Nov 25 10:01:42 1982


I don`t understand the defensive advantage to placing ALL the MX missiles
in a pack formation.  All an enemy has to do is launch a volley of
weapons at the area where the MXs are placed, and the whole defensive
armament area will be a crater.  Don`t tell me there will be enough
anti-ballistic missiles to defend the MXs.  Enough damage will be done
to our arms to render the entire system virtually useless.  What happened
to the underground railway idea, where the missiles would be moved so
no enemy would know just where the missiles would be located?

I`m also personally appalled by the naming of the MXs.  Peacekeepr?
No arms of any size keep the peace, they threaten it.  Of course,
how are you going to tell that to the Russians.  As Hawkeye Pierce
once said, "I`d like to see someone give a war, and nobody came."

Tom O`Connor
ixlpc!tomoc