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Design and Construction of Deep Underground Basing Facilities for Strategic Missiles Report of a Workshop Conducted by the U.S. National Committee on Tunneling Technology, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, National Research Council. (1982) / Chapter Skim
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AIR FORCE DEEP BASING PROGRAM
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... Norton Air Force Base, California SUMMARY: It is well known that the President recently announced a new strategic modernization plan and that the MX missile is aSkey part of the plan. This briefing states why intercontinental ballistic missiles are important and why the United States needs the MX missile in a survivable basing mode.
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... We have three Titan wings -- in Arizona, in Kansas, and in Arkansas. We have six Minuteman missile wings: Whiteman in Missouri; Warren in Wyoming; Ellsworth in South Dakota; Grand Forks and Minot in North Dakota; and Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana.
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... Figure 7 shows that the Soviets spent more on equipment and facilities than we did during the time period. I read in a newspaper sometime in the very recent past where the Soviet Union actually for military expenditures during the decade of the l970s had spent almost $500 billion more than the United States, but in this period -- like l970 to l978 -- they had spent for equipment and facilities $l04 billion more than the United States had.
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... We can defend silos or we can rebase, and the rebasing of the MX is what we are talking about here today. Through the years we have looked at an awful lot of ways to base the MX missile.
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... The President has told us, "Develop and produce l00 MX missiles; deploy some of these missiles initially in silos." Part of our job out at the Ballistic Missile Office is to design and produce the hardware necessary to go in some 40 or 50 Titan or Minuteman silos. We have also been instructed to pursue as long-term options each of three categories of things; the decision date for the choice among these three options is late l984.
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  • missile defense
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  • intercontinental ballistic
  • deep basing

  • missile office
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  • force base

  • president recently
  • alternative responses
  • reentry vehicles
  • recently announced
  • soviet missile

  • missile forces
  • iii missile
  • motor missile
  • missile crisis
  • tic missile

  • cuban missile
  • massive soviet
  • berry ballistic
  • own ballistic
  • recent strategic

  • norton air
  • soviet buildup
  • deterrent force
  • deep underground
  • malmstrom air


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