The Nation - News from Sept. 6, 1985

Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger told Congress that the Pentagon has “no problem” with a proposed congressional cut in the Reagan Administration’s MX missile program from 100 to 50 of the nuclear weapons. The Defense Department will not seek any more MX weapons next year to deploy, although it does plan to ask for 21 of them for use in tests and as spares, Weinberger wrote Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wis.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Reagan originally sought 100 of the 10-warhead weapons for basing in Minuteman silos.