Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...harvesting of the valuable food fish on the U.S. and Canadian west coasts. They initialed a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, linking their two countries in law enforcement. They also noted that Canada will participate in the $8 billion manned space-station program planned by the U.S. for the mid-1990s. Canada is no stranger to space technology, since Ontario-based Spar Aerospace Ltd. built the mechanical arm used in the U.S. space shuttle...
...stirred up old friends and enemies. Now comes the news that the West estate has released six manuscripts, which Viking will publish at the rate of one a year. The author, who first appeared in print in 1911, should be picking up new reviews and readers into the early 1990s...
...Star Wars system work in this more limited sense? It will take a long time to find out: though a fairly crude defense could be erected by the early 1990s, some of the more advanced warhead-killing technologies, like lasers and particle beams, seem to be at least 15 to 20 years away from effective use. The obstacles are difficult even to conceive, let alone overcome. One example: tracking enemy missiles, aiming and firing at them, and then assessing almost instantaneously which ones have been hit would require a computer program so complex that it is beyond the ability...
...pellets fired at a missile, bus or warhead to destroy it by sheer impact. They are potentially effective at any stage from boost to re-entry, and can be fired either from the ground or from space. Their technology is well enough developed to make them available by the 1990s, much earlier than any of the beam weapons. Indeed, a terminal defense of sorts could be put into place right now. Main drawbacks: the range of kinetic-energy weapons is measured in hundreds rather than thousands of miles, and the top speed researchers are trying to reach for any projectile...
...largely hollow, shaped like a honeycomb. The four could either be used in tandem, creating the equivalent of a gigantic 590-in. mirror, or separately. Overseas, Japanese astronomers also have their eyes on Mauna Kea; they hope to build a 295-in. telescope on the volcano by the 1990s. The European Southern Observatory, headquartered in Munich, is considering an array of four 315-in. telescopes that could, like the N.O.A.O. instrument, act in concert...