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Old June 30th 09, 07:08 AM posted to sci.military.naval,sci.space.history
Pat Flannery
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Default Fate of Italian Polaris Missiles



OM wrote:
...Original plan for the LGM-118A Peacekeeper or MX Missile.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MX_missile

...I remember the big exposes "60 Minutes" had on this one, with
_Time_ and _Newsweek_ publishing their own articles at the time,
showing how each missile would have its own train track with several
hardened silos that were miles apart.


That's not the train one, that's "Shell Game" - where the missiles were
carried around on giant trucks that drove around between
blast-resistant surface shelters on a random basis, possibly using
full-weight decoy trucks with no missile aboard also.

Pat