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...launched missiles are not accurate enough to hit hardened missile silos and are too few to aim at such standard military targets as airbases. The European warheads exist for their deterrent value; they could destroy Soviet cities in retaliation for an attack on Britain or France. Says Colonel Jonathan Alford, deputy director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies: "French and British nuclear weapons are essentially weapons of last resort, designed to make it clear to the Soviets that they cannot risk an attack on London or Paris without suffering the destruction of, say, Moscow and Kiev." But if France...
...conventional view, Moscow will intervene in Poland only in the event of a general breakdown of law-and-order, or of a direct threat to the Warsaw Pact. If they should ever do so, in the opinion of Colonel Jonathan Alford of London's Institute for Strategic Studies, the intervention would be carried out "with a very great margin of superiority." His estimate is that the Soviets would bring in as many as 35 divisions, with around 500,000 men. But Alford believes the Soviet high command has counseled caution over Poland. One reason: even on so crushing a scale...
Roderick Firth, Alford Professor of Natural Philosophy, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, said he sees problems in letting students know that the course is intended to "help each student clarify his or her own moral objectives," rather than
Roderick Firth, Alford Professor of Aesthetics, said yesterday he signed the petition as "a matter of conscience," adding, "I would like to think my country has as moral a foreign policy as possible...
Boeing's Lionel Alford, president of the company's military plane division: "Boeing hasn't really built a military plane since the B-52, but we damn well still know how. We're going after that CX, just watch us. We'll come down the gulch thundering...