DESERET NEWS, OCT. 2, 1979: OMAHA (UPI) -- The Air Force chief of staff said Sunday it is "likely" the MX missile system will be located in the Southwest, rather than in the Nebraska Panhandle and adjoining areas of the High Plains . . .
States most commonly mentioned by defense officials for the MX, the World Herald said, are Arizona, Nevada and Utah.DESERET NEWS, Jan. 16, 1980: Some are for it. Some are against it. Some are confused by it and all of them wonder about it. But all in the Delta area would be touched by the MX Project if the Air Force decided to base the gigantic project in their backyard.
DESERET NEWS, May 5, 1981: The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued a statement Tuesday deploring the nuclear arms race and expressing "grave concern" over concentration of the MX missile system in Utah and Nevada.
Such concentration may invite a first-strike attack with near-annihilation in western valleys and deadly fallout spreading over much of the nation, the statement said. The construction project would have adverse sociological, ecological and water impacts in the area, the statement signed by the three members of the First Presidency continued.
One of the hottest Utah issues of the century died a slow death. The world changed. The Soviet Union began to crumble from within and a new administration was determined to cut military spending. MX, on the scale proposed in the 1980s, faded into the Western sunset.