The Missile Shell Game.

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  • Author(s): Aldridge, Robert C.
  • Source:
    Nation. 5/13/1978, Vol. 226 Issue 18, p560-563. 4p. 1 Cartoon or Caricature.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      BALLISTIC missiles; MILITARY readiness; CARTER, Jimmy, 1924-
    • Subject Terms:
      UNITED StatesReport Available
    • Abstract:
      Focuses on the growing support within the U.S. military community for the development of Missile-X, a mobile intercontinental ballistic missile in 1978. Impact of President Jimmy Carter's order to cease the production of the B-1 bomber on military readiness; Cost of developing Missile-X; Details of the Missile-X program where the developers are looking at 13 land-mobile possibilities including road, rail, missile pods on the bottom of ponds, hard capsules, shelter bases and trenches.