Insuring Survivability: Basing the MX Missile


 

Publication Date: May 1980

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Jeffrey G. Barlow

Research Area: Military and defense

Keywords: National security

Type: Report

Abstract:

The whole problem of U.S. ICBM vulnerability has arisen because of a series of interconnecting technological and political factors that date back at least to the Johnson Administration. It is incumbent upon the Carter Administration to convince Congress that its emerging MX basing scheme has a definite military utility.