[Pox]

After viewing the first two parts of this (I was too young to actually care about such things when it aired originally), it is easy to conclude that this was prepared simply as a propaganda piece to justify the building of our MX missile system to replace or supplement the Minuteman III’s.

It wasn't effective, but it didn't matter as eventually the Peanut Farmer was ejected and Mr. Reagan took care of it from there.

[moonshot925]

The MX Missile was never necessary. I have no idea why it was developed. 12 Madison and Franklin class submarines were refitted with the Trident C4 SLBM from 1978 to 1982. A total of 192 Trident C4’s. Each one could carry 8 W76 (100 KT) warheads with a range of 4,000 nautical miles. The Trident C4 was also deployed on the new Ohio class submarines. By the end of 1986 we had 3,072 warheads deployed on 20 Trident submarines.

There was really no need for the MX.