102. _The aost recent1y riisci.rss.d LCBi.f is the mobife l.4x nissile. rn June Li|i., th.?resident of r-he united sr-ates aui,horized. the full-scal-e developnaent of this;missile, to carry 10 I{InVed 'rarhe'ds with a sub_megaton yieJ_d and a range of11'000 knx. The key aspecL of this rnissile is that it ro,.td r. encapsullted, withrnissile and capsule weighing together about u5 tons, A "race-track'r basing-modefor the I'lx was later ser-ectec1. rn this system" 200 "race tracks" of about45 km, circunference woufd each le equippld r^dth 23 shelters and one l4X rnissj.lealong with a transporter-erector-lalxlctrer (tnl). A 'rshield. vehicle!' would visiteach of the 23 shelters in turn" The shield. vehicl-e would contain either thenissile and its TEL or a simulator (or decoy) , so that even close observationvouId not enable one to determine whicb shelter contained the missile"trbrthernore o the automated rEL r^/ould have tlre ability to move on warning" so thatif inforrnation of an rcBl'{ }aunch against the MX complex was obtained, s-ne or a1.}of the 200 TEL would dash fron the sher-ters in vhieh thev rrad. been hidden anasecrete the l.4X in another shelter, 103' nstiraates of the required expenditur:e for this system range from sone $30,000 miltion to $60,000 nillion or nore, of which Lnty aloui $l,ooo ,,ir:-ion isfor the procurement of the missiles themsel-ves. rt has been observed that asystem in which the basing mode costs $3O,0OO mil_l-ion or more, whil-e theprocurement of missiles costs rronly" $3,ooo railtion, nay encouraBe the possibilityof multiplying the n,nber of missiles in the hsralened. basing sysiem by a factor ofB for perhaps only a 50 per cent increase in over-all system cost. A super -fcr.,:r contemplating such a basing mod.e cou,l"d be said to instir in its adversary (and inthe nations of the wor1d ) the expectation that, at some time, very rnuch largerm.mbers of missiles an..l nuclear warheads woufd be deployed. than vere originaLl-y announced. as the plan for the system. For this xeason. meaJrs to a110rnrverification of the existing nulber of missiles $ithin the system are reportedfyto be introduced.