WHEN THE PENTAGON Reagan's aides were discussing the the President suggested giving it the name peacemaker.
This was rejected when the top brass said it sounded too much like the device used to prevent cardiac arrest. Mind you, when you read what the MX can do, and how it is going to be used, you are quite likely to have a cardiac arparticularly if you citizen of Wyoming!
The MX which will be ployed in Dense Pack is 70 feet long and weighs 192.000 Ibs.
carries independently targettable warheads, all with the power to obliterate and cities Hiroshima.
But as the Pentsoon reesons there is no point in having all that firepower if the other side destroy it before it gets off the ground. So the plan follows: 100 missiles will be placed in a 14-mile strip of Wyoming. each missile seperated by 1800 feet from five neighbours.
The US military strategists say that the Russians would have to aim one of its own Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles at each of the individual silos. Whan Socialist Challenge 3 December 1982 and will then MX debris blown off course.
the MXs would their are emEach dings of the Russian ICBMs. between size of cally Da burnad up, can blown off goes the rest of the USA.
then patriotic sacrifice will missiles to page b the first Russian ICBMs land they send up such catacivsm or best waves. electro magnetic forces and radio active Many other Soviet missiles travelling in their wake would be burned up, damaged or Then after a 'suitable' time lag rise gracefully through the mushroom cloud and way to the Soviet Union. Of course if you are living in Wyoming just then its tough luck, because sure as hell you will be killed off by what is in that mushroom cloud, if you have not been despatched by the first lanThose Soviet ICBMs that were following the first wave will, as the Pentagon reasons almost cerdamaged or this.
That means that they will leave a trail of death and destruction across all the mid-west, and very likely all over This military reasoning starts from the premise that maybe a lot of US citizens are going to die a painful death, but at least it will be enable the US get Moscow, However, there is a flaw to all Kosta Tsipis is a physicist who heads the programme in science and technology for international security at Massachusetts stitute of Technology. He points out that if the Russians send in only 60 of the 300 SS18 ICBMs they have got, each one has a war heac equivalent to 20 million tons of TNT and it only needs 20 to get through to knock out not one, but all six of the silos. Thank You, Congressman, for This Truly Wonderful New Heap.
not get off the ground but Wyoming will still be laid to waste which is hardly conducive to raising the patriotic spirit of the people who In- live there.
bit stingy of welfare benefits and not too keen to spend money on federal housing. prepared to cut corners when it gets in the business of death and destruction. It will cost around 26 billion dollars for the MX projec but if you can kill off the popula tion of some 20 or 30 cities the siz of Hiroshima, with just one then I guess the military reckon they are getting value fo The murderous lunacy that i prepared Capital Hil send shivers down th spine of any sane person. This i calculated preparation for a con flict that could cause a holocaus on a world scale. . As one Wyom ing family told the Sunday Times *Its like a drug fix. Our whole dependency on nuclear weapon: means we need bigger and bette fixes all the time.
The MX project is not simph It is portent of eve more horrifying things to unless the ruling classes of the im perialist countries have the righ to manufacture and use thest weapons taken away from them.
the way the Pentagor threw out the name 'peacemaker they changed it to 'peacekeeper which for a weapon that is design ed to kill and maim millions of peo ple, shows that the American rul ing class are not only murderous Dut that they are aisc psychopathic ones.