Word: arsenals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...secrecy that shrouds most CBW research, Steele managed to visit nearly every installation where such work is under way. He flew over the Utah salt flats to see the vast reach of the Dugway Proving Grounds; he went to the biological laboratory at Fort Detrick, Md., the Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Denver, the scientific offices at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, and the huge storage depot at Tooele, Utah...
...informed criticism that is now aimed their way. He was also impressed with their safety record and with the strange mixture of gruesome, warlike preparation and peaceful pleasures that he found in the areas where they work. "Fishermen drop their lines in the ponds at Pine Bluff Arsenal. At Tooele, the day I was there, thousands of school kids were paying Armed Forces Day visits. There was only one 'incident': a bright teen-ager managed to start up a tank...
...their contents. Even an inspector on the ground would have to take a missile nose cone apart and physically count the number of warheads inside. Neither side will readily agree to let the other's technical experts get so close to the business end of its nuclear arsenal. By contrast, enforcing a ban on flight tests would be relatively easy. Each side can observe its rival's launches from a distance...
...emptive strike in an acute crisis like the Cuban missile confrontation would increase. This new step-up in the arms race,* coupled with the Safeguard ABM, would cost the U.S. at least $20 billion and could lead to far vaster expenses if each side continued to expand its arsenal. These huge expenditures would bring no increase in security. More likely, both sides would become more vulnerable to attack...
...recent months, the nature of the arcane arsenal's components has gradually been revealed. In the chemical-warfare category, one of the most lethal gases is Sarin (GB), which in heavy vapor doses attacks the victim's nervous system and reduces him to a convulsive mass before death occurs. Fifteen years ago, the commanding officer of the Army's Rocky Mountain Arsenal estimated that a single drop of the nerve gas in liquid form on the back of a man's hand could kill him in 30 seconds. Sarin has been improved since then. The Army...