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...specific cuts, Browne looks back over his shoulder at a number of earlier songs, and reexamines both his Armageddon and the sorts of hold-outs who survive. He opens with "Disco Apocalypse," a "self-mocking parody" and skeptical glance backward at "Before the Deluge," in which the dreamers and fools with the energy of the innocent struggle to deliver Mother Earth from the hands of her defilers. With this "affectionate nod to disco." Browne turns to those caught in the sounds and sights of the avenue: Hearts beating to a disco drummer, they wait for the end of the world...
...draft, some of those opposed now feel, would actually encourage war: so much cannon fodder would surely tempt the Pentagon and President to swagger, and then to escalate and eventually drive in full plumage into Armageddon. But a contrary logic might just as easily apply: a broadly representative military drawn from every class, without the discrimination inherent in the AVF, would force the military to be more cautious, and sensitive to the democratic will...
...would be a Boeing-made missile that would carry out such an Armageddon mission. But the Seattle company's victory in the Great Cruise Race came only after a long dogfight with rival defense contractor General Dynamics. The Air Force in November 1977 asked both companies to build prototype weapons and then to conduct an unusual, eight-month-long fly-off that deliberately pushed the two designs to-and occasionally beyond-their limits...
...economy, not to mention other valid claims on government resources, rule out such a budget. It's naive, however, for anyone--anti-draft activist or Pentagon computer--to assume that such a huge war would not escalate up the nuclear ladder, from conventional warfare to "limited nuclear war" to Armageddon. If the planning to fight this conventional war in Europe means that the U.S. has given up the idea of nuclear deterrence altogether, then our military policy needs total rethinking, not just the cosmetics of draft registration...
...Science Center symposium, hundreds of doctors, students and activists contemplated modern Armageddon, filling in the viods of imagination with the detailed predictions of experts rather than the rhetoric of politicians...