Word: alertinging
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On military bases across Russia, red lights flashed and Klaxons blared, alerting the troops in charge of the country's strategic nuclear weapons to get ready to use them. Yeltsin and his military commanders, linked by phone, waited to hear whether an attack had been confirmed. About 12 minutes after...
Such concerns have revived the worldwide call, even from some very senior generals and admirals, to abolish nuclear weapons. But a large part of the risk could be eliminated by the less radical step of "de-alerting" the forces, taking them off their hair-trigger posture. Since there is no...
These ideas have not caught on. Defense Secretary Cohen ducks the issue. Others, like former Assistant Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, seem to think de-alerting would distract people from the campaign to abolish the weapons altogether.
Just so you know, your visit is not as unexpected as it seems. All juniors on campus received highly-detailed mailings some weeks ago alerting us to the fact. Also, your frequent phone calls about hotel and restaurant reservations and that damn schizophrenia lecture to be given this morning kept...
Both Pentagon and FAA officials expressed concern that some hotdogging may have occurred in the first flyby. Confirmation will have to await completion of a probe by the National Transportation Safety Board. Major General Donald Sheppard, head of the Air National Guard, attempted to put events in a positive light...