Activists Oppose Deployment of the MX Missile
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- Series: Great Events from History II: Ecology and the Environment Series
- Categories: Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Military History, Technology, Inventions, Environmental Issues
- Subcategories: Protests, Marches, Demonstrations, Rallies, Nuclear Weapons, Power, Radiation, Ecology, Environment, Conservation
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present
- Geographical Location: Nevada, Utah
- Date: 1981
Article abstract: Activists and local citizens joined forces to protest deployment of the new MX intercontinental ballistic missile in the Great Basin of Utah and Nevada.
Summary of Event
In 1972, President Richard Nixon, supported by his secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, won approval from the U.S. Senate for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) II Treaty, which limited the total number of nuclear warheads in the arsenals of the United States and the Soviet Union. The treaty essentially capped the arsenals of the two nations at a level of rough...
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