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Article: CHOOSING UP SIDES ON THE MIDGETMAN CONVENTIONAL ROLES ARE REVERSED IN MISSILE DEBATE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 29, 1987
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CopyrightCopyright 1987 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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WASHINGTON - How does one explain the phenomenon called
Midgetman -- a nuclear missile that, in a strange switching of
roles, many liberal-to- moderate congressmen adore and many
high-ranking officials in the Pentagon despise?
Despite its name, Midgetman is no pipsqueak in the realm of
mass destruction. When it enters the arsenal in 1992, it will carry
a warhead with the explosive energy of 500,000 tons of TNT -- more
power than any warhead in the US missile inventory today. It will
have the accuracy and power to destroy the most deeply buried,
concrete-sheltered targets. In short, it is a weapon that a decade
ago most doves would have denounced and many hawks would have
celebrated.
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