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...been identified as Sanduleak-69 202, a blue supergiant whose position in the Large Magellanic Cloud neatly coincided with the supernova. Though Sanduleak was suspected, some astronomers, like Harvard's Robert Kirshner, at first thought that satellite data on the LMC showed the star still existed after the blast and thus could not have been the progenitor. Later other scientists examining the same evidence failed to locate SK-69 202. Admitted Kirshner last week: "It was that star that blew up -- no matter what you've heard elsewhere . . . from me." His colleagues guffawed...
...What has been lost today by families, many lawyers, young people, evangelists, Wall Street speculators, Presidents, and industrialists and bureaucrats who allowed the Challenger to blast off is the sense that they are accountable to others, as well as themselves, for their actions," Bowen says. "We live in a time characterized by intense self-centeredness...
...Hazebrook nuclear device that was detonated some 700 ft. below the Nevada desert last Feb. 3 was puny by most measures. Equal to about 40 tons of TNT, a mere .2% as strong as the Hiroshima blast, it would be feeble in a missile warhead. But in space, packed into the closed end of a stubby barrel and tamped down with hundreds of thousands of metal pellets, the low-yield weapon could wreak havoc. Unlike a standard nuclear explosion, which would vaporize the pellets and barrel, this one would spray the pellets through space at speeds up to 100 times...
Among these new weapons is a bomb that would produce mostly microwaves; exploded in space, it could fry the electronic circuitry and computer chips of an enemy command center. Another bomb would concentrate the force of a nuclear blast on a small target; aimed at, say, the Kremlin, it could leave the rest of Moscow intact. The result, says Physicist Ted Taylor, "is a weapon as different from current nuclear weapons as a rifle is technologically from gunpowder." It is, he continues, "qualitatively a new phase in nuclear weapons development...
...scene dragged the injured from the wreckage and helped load victims into private cars even before the first ambulances arrived. At Colombo's General Hospital, doctors and nurses worked through the night on hundreds of patients while relatives scoured the wards, searching for people missing since the blast. The official estimate of 106 killed was probably low, said a government spokesman, as police continued to sort through dismembered bodies. "We cannot count heads and arms...