Missiles
Your March 22 report, “Deal to Build Two Missile Systems Seen,” characterizes funding both MX and Midgetman missiles as a compromise. The Air Force and Congress can’t agree which missile is needed. Neither missile can increase national security because land-based missiles are no longer survivable.
Building both missiles resolves the controversy in the wrong direction by increasing the budget deficit without increasing national security.
A better answer is to build neither missile and to negotiate cuts to nuclear arsenals.
DICK HEISER
Los Angeles
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