ABSTRACT

Caspar Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense for most of the two Reagan administrations, once suggested that to the call for military expenditure "cuts, cuts, cuts, I reply: jobs, jobs, jobs." Secretary Weinberger captured the prevailing attitude among many US communities that grew dependent on the military dollar. This attitude prevails not only in communities that host military bases but also in those home to private military-industry contractors as well as in the fifteen communities engaged in military-nuclear production around the United States. 1