Word: bombsã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...good guys, on the other hand, do their utmost to protect civilians during times of war. They use laser-guided “smart bombs?? to make sure that they blow up only military installations and not civilians. Along with their explosives, they also drop thousands of tasty treats, ensuring that the poor people living behind enemy lines do not starve. They are even kind enough to halt bombing on the enemy’s weekly holy...
Let’s start with the much-praised “smart bombs.” In theory, even if a target is in a residential neighborhood, a smart bomb can annihilate it with limited risk to the surrounding area. In practice, however, “smart bombs?? are only 60 percent accurate, according to statistics compiled by the Pentagon during the Gulf War. Perhaps this is satisfactory performance by military standards, but it means that for every 1,000 bombs dropped, 400 will go astray and land in schools, hospitals and homes. And this estimate assumes...
...until many years after the Gulf War that people started feeling sorry for Iraqi civilians. As far as we knew, the “smart bombs?? dropped by U.S. fighters hit only military targets. We were made to believe that only Saddam Hussein would suffer from our barrage of Cruise missiles. Little did we know that our bombs would destroy the entire infrastructure of a nation and that we would not allow that nation to rebuild itself even 11 years after...
...courage to tell both sides of the story. The information revolution works both ways. For years, we predicted that the Internet and satellite technology would empower individuals living under communist and authoritarian regimes. Now, that same technology will show Americans what happens when our “smart bombs?? land in civilian neighborhoods. CNN is caught in a Catch-22: it can either tell the whole truth and risk falling from Washington’s good graces, or paint a one-sided Gulf War-type story and risk losing both credibility and viewers...
...reduce the amount of Russian weapons-grade plutonium that is inadequately guarded and that could be obtained by terrorists or rogue states. The initiative, started by the Clinton administration, would have destroyed a large number of weapons-grade plutonium stores—enough to make 8,000 nuclear bombs??by either converting the material to fuel for power plants or inactivating it by mixing it with radioactive waste. The Bush administration is considering canceling the program because of its high price tag, an estimated $6 billion over two decades. But unlike the missile defense shield, which carries costs...