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...gulf war is a test not just of armies but of arms, and the big loser is already clear: France. During the Iran-Iraq war, Baghdad laid out $16 billion for Mirage jets, Exocet missiles and other French-made weapons -- close to a third of the Iraqi arsenal. But when the dust settles from Operation Desert Storm, French arms makers may find they have taken as bad a beating as Saddam's soldiers. While American jets and missiles and British aircraft have dazzled the world, Iraq's French-supplied firepower has been drubbed or simply withdrawn...
Like last year's volume of his autobiography, Memoirs, Moscow and Beyond reveals one of the great figures of modern history's essential humanism. In Memoirs Sakharov told the story of his early life, his involvement in the development of the U.S.S.R.'s nuclear arsenal and his transformation, in the 1960s, into a leading Soviet dissident. The first book also documented Sakharov and his second wife Elena Bonner's internal exile in Gorky and their persistent struggles for human rights despite KGB harassment...
Bush's decision to reject the Soviet peace plan had two objectives, scholars say. Not only did the U.S. want to reduce Hussein's arsenal, but the Administration wanted to leave the Iraqi leader little room to claim any sort of victory--military, moral or otherwise. Arabs would then have little reason to regard him as a hero, experts...
...unlikely to do so in the gulf war. Chemicals would achieve no military advantage that cannot be attained through conventional means, and their use by the allies would compromise long-term U.S. efforts to eliminate them from the planet. The U.S. has no chemical arms in its gulf arsenal, nor does it possess any biological weapons, having unilaterally forsworn them in 1969. Should Saddam Hussein fight dirty, however, the U.S. and its allies can retaliate by using other potent weapons against Iraqi troops. Among them...
FUEL-AIR EXPLOSIVES. The deadliest non-nuclear bombs in the allied arsenal, they disperse a highly volatile mist over a large area. When this cloud is ignited in a second explosion, the resulting blast packs nearly the wallop (but, of course, not the radiation) of a small nuclear device. The bombs also suck up oxygen, pulling the lungs and other organs of stricken troops partially out of their bodies. The mist from some fuel-air bombs can penetrate bunkers before detonating. Another advantage is that while the force of a conventional explosion decreases rapidly as one moves away from...