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...weapons 140 miles above the earth's surface, long before they can reach a U.S. city and kill thousands, if not millions. At the Pentagon, military officers are drafting plans for sky-scouring radars designed to stand perpetual guard against just such an attack. At the western tip of Alaska's Aleutian Islands, military surveyors assess sites at which construction of the most critical of those radars is set to begin a year from...
...double the $25.6 billion the Pentagon projected for a 100-interceptor system. The U.S. space shield's satellites would detect the launch of an enemy missile and cue ground-based radars to find it. Data on its path would be downloaded into the interceptors before their launch from mainland Alaska bases, with updates radioed to them in flight. Four interceptors, fired two at a time, would be dedicated to each incoming warhead. If the first pair should miss, another pair would be fired...
...ALASKA Tops in both occupational fatalities and calendar days without sun, 281 per year...
Unfortunately Captain Gatto is not alone. From Florida to Alaska, federal and state environmental-enforcement officials spend as much time fighting their employers as they do pursuing polluters. But they are gaining strength by banding together. In 1992 a group of environmental enforcers organized the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility to protect environmental heroes like Ron Gatto from intimidation by polluters or by their bosses. Today PEER, based in Washington, has 10,000 members, mostly from various state, federal and local environmental-enforcement agencies. They're fighting for the idea that courage under fire should not get you fired...
...Despite the skepticism of many defense analysts, it has become conventional wisdom on Capitol Hill that the U.S. needs a system of interceptor missiles, deployed in Alaska, that will be able to shoot down any incoming missiles from North Korea or other "rogue" states. Skeptics point out that despite $60 billion of investment in Reagan's "Star Wars" program and a further $10 billion envisaged by the Clinton administration, an even relatively fail-safe system of interceptor missiles remains a pipe dream. Still, that hasn't deterred either Congress or the White House from championing the program...