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The MX Peacekeeper Missile
Words to Live By Podcast
English - December 13, 2022 07:00 - 21 minutes - 50 MB - ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsGovernment Business Non-Profit audio reagan library reagan foundation ronald reagan president reagan great communicator Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In November 1981, President Reagan delivered what he considered to be the most important foreign policy speech of his administration. Before the members of the National Press Club, he called for a number of things: the elimination of all intermediate range nuclear force weapons – known as the zero zero option – and, he called for a meeting with the Soviet Union (then Brezhnev) to negotiate new reductions in their mutual stockpiles of long range strategic nuclear weapons. But just weeks before this speech he had given final approval to blueprints for a multibillion dollar modernization of our strategic forces to build 100 B-1B bombers to replace our deteriorating fleet of B-52 bombers, to deploy new trident nuclear submarines, to develop the stealth bomber, and to build 100 new intercontinental range missiles known as…the MX Peacekeeper.