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Show of the U of U will take an honest look at what this coun -try and this state need, and get on with the program. By the way, a town of 20 to 30 thousand isn't too bad a size for good living. I've lived in everything from hamlets to cities of over two million I'll take the 'small city' every time. God Speed, CHARLES WALKER North Ogden Utah Dear Sir: As a scientist with 7 years volunteer experience in Utah Civil Defense, in the 1960's and having been one of four to spend Sundays and nights in school building furnace rooms, crawl spaces, under multipurpose rooms, culminating cul-minating In letters to 55 Granite School District principals prin-cipals for the benefit of the children in a potential holocaust, holo-caust, the author has some Civil defense basis for the following sobering considerations: consider-ations: 1. The grim realities of Societ Civil defense are these: General Aleksandr Altunin plus 100,000 military assignees form the leading , edge of a system for nuclear 1 war survival far and away , surpassing anything else on earth. (Sweden and Switzerland Switz-erland have some capa-' capa-' biltty). 2. Renowned world scien- tists such as Dr. Leon Go- ure, Dr. Edward Teller and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Chair-man George S. Brown in addition ad-dition to military experts I like Major General George . Keegan, asses a nuclear ex-f ex-f change to result in American t casualties of some 160 million, mil-lion, while Soviet casualties . number 5 to 20 million. 3. The basis for state -t ment 2, is that Soviet children chil-dren are required, by drills and study to learn the ef- ! fects of nuclear weapons . (heat, blast and fallout). Al-, Al-, so principles of protection (time, dustance and mass shielding) plus family and personal survival during the attack. 4. How many of your present pres-ent readers know their ABC's about these life and death subjects? Although more could be said, the bottom line is lear. Right now, there is a frightening fright-ening basis to believe that the successors to Kruschev who said 'Time is on our side, we will bury you'. Are Thank you so much.tl mean so much to me, a I know they will mean ev more in the years to con-Athletes con-Athletes in this end of i state have a difficult til receiving any recogniti and having things such this to keep as a remei brance of these special tim is important. Again, thank you. Mrs. Richard Sylvester Marysvalle, Utah little deterred from achieving achiev-ing their Communist world empire believing that they, will win. Now to MX. All our eggs are in one basket. We believe be-lieve not in limiting war damage but only in deterrence deter-rence via nuclear superiority superior-ity (which we used to have) or parity (which we no longer long-er have). Apparently we don't believe in deterrence as in the last decade we have allowed the Soviets to acquire over 150 thousand million dollars in mostly nuclear missiles and missile mis-sile delivery equipment more than we have, plus their Civil defense. Why then aren't you as frightened as I? How can you sleep better bet-ter than I do? What will you tell your children about your own and the future of American, the last best hope on earth? MX will become a deterrent deter-rent force in 1989 unless the basing mode is changed, requiring re-quiring more years of environmental en-vironmental impact studies such as the present hearings on dust gagging horny toads. Can we afford even 1989 under the present threat? Can we afford going back to square one and increase our nuclear attack nakedness? We must also cut the deployment de-ployment time! Some say MX should be on small diesel submarines submarin-es instead of making Utah the sponge state. Check the following: A. Shallow subs on our California conteintal ocean shelf would almost undoubtedly undoubt-edly be subject to multiple under ocean nuclear enemy bursts. The results follow; 1. Ultra hot sodium 24 radionucleide water drop -let fallout carried West to East by winds would result in NevadaUtah fallout intensities in-tensities grimly greater than earthrock fallout from any ground bursts. The neutron neu-tron induced gamma rays possess fierce M.E.V. energy ener-gy and yield half this energy ener-gy in the first 15 hours. 2. A turbulent cascading-wave cascading-wave Van Dorn friction effect ef-fect would smash shallow outboard underwater bursts. 3. The weight of 2 MX's overcome ballast and buoy-ance buoy-ance capability of these subs. If bigger ones are designed and built, ultra - precious lead time will be lost as compared to scooping out desert shelters. 4. Small unsophisticated submarine missile accurary is in serious question for targets, an ocean and a half a continnt away. 5. The new Secretary of the Navy Lehman, knowing the above and many other facts, doesn't want MX on subs. He believes in the present multiple protective shelter system. Scientific and military expertise favors fa-vors preserving this land-based, land-based, accurate leg of the Triad and MPS basing after lengthy trade off studies. Lots more to say -no more room. We NEED MX. Utahns, let's not whine 'We'll be a target -a sponge'! Did Montana or other states to do whenMin-uteman whenMin-uteman was constructed? Be assured lethal amounts of radiation will pass over the entire VJS. including Utah, with or without MX in an all out war. Since we don't believe be-lieve in Civil Defense - and we should believe in both civil defense and deterrence, we must believe in and build MX - and build it NOW! A final note: If we, in Utah are unwilling to accept risk or the environmental consequences conse-quences of our own missiles in a desert void, how can we expect our Allies to be willing will-ing to continue basing them in relatively populated areas for mutual defense of the free world? Respectfully, BURTON E. TEW West Valley City, Utah ..Dear. Editor:-..,.,, I received . -the ; pictures and papers of the Region Twelve Basketball. rSDOO feedback just what kind of people we have in this state. But then when we realize who is making mak-ing the most noise, if not sense (a bunch of hired project pro-ject killers), we realize how Ed Firm age and his sweet Gloria intend to run their next campaign. When Ed and Gloria stand up in all righteousness and tell out and out shall we say falsehoods to get on camera and make a name for themselves, it is obvious that those in Utah not associated with the left -leaning element Dear Editor: By golly Red, your 'Just Between You and Me' of April 9, was about the most logical bit of information I have yet to read about the MX. Thank the good Lord ' there are men and thinkers like you around to set the record straight. Having attended the MX DEIS hearing in Salt Lake City and hearing those in the audience act like a bunch of not to bright high school debaters made me wonder |