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Despite declarations that the U.S. would retaliate only after a Soviet attack, the Pentagon is building a force of fast, accurate missiles and aircraft that the Soviets may correctly view as a first-strike threat. As Bruce Blair, a scholar at the Brookings Institution, points out, the truly astronomical number of SIOP targets forces the U.S. into a situation in which, contrary to declared doctrine, launching first or on warning of a Soviet attack "becomes almost a necessity...
Reshaping the SIOP and reducing warheads also offer a real chance for money savings: with fewer targets, fewer aircraft and submarines are needed to launch warheads at them. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney told Congress that he has undertaken a "new look" at the SIOP, but given his cautious record, critics doubt how far-reaching this look will be. Nitze, hardly an advocate of unilateral disarmament, says the U.S. could make do with 3,000 or so warheads, while former Defense Secretary Harold Brown insists that a stable deterrence is achievable under certain circumstances with no more than 1,000 warheads...
Cocky immature pilot/driver who everyone knows has talent moves from boring aircraft duty/ California sprint circuit to big time Top Gun flight school/NASCAR circuit in order to prove he's great. During adjustment period Cruise gets picked on by other pilots/drivers and the flight instructer/pit crew chief, played by Robert Duvall in Thunder. Pilot/driver has the shadow of his father hanging over him; discusses it with flight instructor/crew chief...
...high- flying (100,000 ft.), 3,000-m.p.h. spy plane did and at less cost. But was the real reason that an even faster snooper is being developed in the Nevada desert? The 1986 defense budget contained a mysterious reference to the "Aurora" project. Now a prototype of the aircraft is reported to be rocking the desert with shock waves during test flights. Rumors say the Lockheed plane may be unmanned and can fly at speeds greater than Mach 6 (4,100 m.p.h.) -- fast enough to cross the Pacific in less than two hours. Neither the Air Force nor Lockheed...
Inspired while daydreaming, he conjures up innovative electric cars, aircraft powered solely by muscle power and sunlight, and strategies for saving the environment...