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...conflict about the plane's cost shouldn't obscure one question: What would these new planes brandish in battle? With atomic Armageddon receding, the ideal new-world-order weapon should be a precision-guided, nonnuclear bomb, similar to those used with devastating effect in the Gulf War. One such ``smart'' bomb can do the work of 100 ``dumb'' bombs, puts fewer pilots at risk and dramatically reduces the tonnage of fuel and weapons that has to be shipped to a war zone. Indeed, the Pentagon was working on the top-secret Tri-Service Standoff Attack Missile (dubbed Tee-Sam), which...
National Basketball Association camps opened, and the start of the season is not under direct threat, yet to hear N.B.A. Players Association executive director Charles Grantham tell it, Armageddon is just a free throw away. Says Grantham: "We both ((owners and players)) have atomic bombs. Before we avoided using them by a pact of mutually assured destruction. But now there's a threat that we both might throw unless we negotiate...
...liberals, that would be Armageddon. For conservatives, a Romney victory would warrant the kind of raucous celebration that marked the fall of the Berlin Wall...
Fears of nuclear Armageddon and Carlos-style terrorism...
...entered its postnuclear stage. Talk shows offer quack catharsis from every form of spousal and parental abuse. We're shouting at each other in National Enquirer headlines and have promoted tabloid newspapers and TV programs, once on the fringe of journalism, up to its hot center. It's Armageddon with commercial breaks. Why, the whole bloody mess could be straight out of an Oliver Stone movie...