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...convince nearby residents that they are not endangered by the ticking bomb, state and local emergency management agencies (overseen by the NRC) have created a contingency plan for dealing with a disaster. People living within the evacuation zone have received a potassium iodide pill that looks remarkably like Tylenol, which they must take if Vermont Yankee melts down (or blows up). The pill plan, reminiscent of the duck-and-cover Cold War contingencies, does not inspire much confidence...
Your report was informative but omitted one facet of the debate. Although Iran is indeed surrounded by nuclear powers, none have ever remotely considered using such weapons because of the possibility of retaliation. If Iran wants to spend the vast resources needed to create the Bomb rather than improve the lot of its people, so be it. But there its Bomb will sit, a true albatross, consuming national resources while it remains unused because of fear of justifiable retaliation. ROBERT O. HOSKINS Florence, Italy...
...another Pearl Harbor is around the corner. It will be not a military attack but a political and economic blow that will cripple the U.S. Tehran and Moscow share a common interest: to drastically reduce the political power of the U.S. in the Middle East. Once Iran has the Bomb, Tehran and Moscow will practically control the world oil supply and could blackmail the U.S. and Europe. In the past few months, Tehran has bluntly positioned itself as the pre-eminent country opposing the U.S.--the first step before trying to boot the U.S. out of the Middle East...
...triangular structure has more 'load paths,'" Foster explains, using the engineer's term for the lines along which a framework carries a building's weight. "So if you take away some of that structure, the loads redistribute themselves." That's another way of saying that if a terrorist truck bomb were to blow away part of the lower floors, the exterior diagrid would--it is hoped--still hug the upper floors tightly...
...Bomb is really a lit and arts magazine,” Cieplak-von Baldegg says. “It’s about sexuality, but we have a wide variety of written content,” including poetry, fiction, and student artwork...