Word: alertness
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Such thinking is likely to gain force in the wake of Gorbachev's Saturday response to Bush's nuclear initiatives. The Soviet President, who telephoned Bush at Camp David to give him a 20-minute preview of his proposals, followed the U.S. in taking strategic bombers off alert and moving their nuclear weapons into warehouses. Gorbachev also followed Bush in scrapping tactical nuclear missiles, land based as well as naval. In addition, he proposed negotiations to reduce the number of remaining strategic weapons by half, while at the same time announcing that from now on Soviet mobile missiles would...
Cutting tactical nuclear forces and reducing alert statuses are positive steps; maintaining the B-2 bomber, as the President still wants...
...proposal to relax even long-range nuclear posture is appropriate. Reduced cost and reduced probability of accident should certainly follow from reduced superpower tension. American bombers, which Defense Secretary Dick Cheney says can be made ready within one day, do not need to be on round-the-clock alert anymore...
...companies in the New York area that earn lower electric rates by participating in a voluntary power-sharing arrangement. When AT&T's main transmission facility in Manhattan switched to its generator, a power surge tripped an emergency backup system powered by batteries. Alarms were triggered to alert AT&T employees that the backup system had been activated, but audio sirens malfunctioned, and visual warnings went unnoticed for more than five hours...
Officials in Syria, the main power broker in Lebanon and the first stop for most released hostages, also said yesterday that they have been on constant alert since Wednesday...