Word: breakthrough
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...would have a range comparable to the 7,500 miles covered by the 71-ft. MX. Its single warhead would probably carry a 500-kiloton punch, in contrast to MX's ten warheads, each with a 330-kiloton, independently targeted payload. Some Pentagon experts contend that a design breakthrough will permit the small missile to be moved about on a heavily armored vehicle dubbed the Armadillo. This launcher would be anchored when firing and be stable enough to handle the missile's blast-off force, yet light enough to be transported by helicopters...
...James Kernick '68, an immunologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who was not involved in the work, was more reserved in his appraisal of the breakthrough. "One must be cautious in predicting the applicability of this development," he said...
...issue of such rising prominence?and potentially deadly consequences?hinges on two related enterprises: the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's beleaguered plans to deploy 572 new American missiles in Western Europe, and the superpowers' deadlocked negotiations on Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF). Barring a breakthrough in those talks, which resume this week in Geneva, NATO is committed to begin deploying its missiles by the end of this year. If it fails to meet that deadline, the Western Alliance will have demonstrated to itself and to its adversaries that it is incapable of carrying out the most important collective decision...
...fact, only a few weeks later, Nitze and his boss, Eugene Rostow, were rebuked by the White House for even exploring such a missile compromise with the Soviets. And when Rostow was fired earlier this month, he suggested a bit misleadingly that it was Nitze's abortive breakthrough last July that had clinched his downfall, and not his own sometimes imperious style. Yet Nitze remains, by every account, the most experienced, respected hawk in the defense Establishment...
...system that will store nearly 7 million words; a sophisticated "32-bit" microprocessor that is far more powerful than the eight-bit chip in its predecessor, the Apple II; and an ultrasharp video display that can show twice as much detail as a standard computer screen. But the key breakthrough is embodied in Lisa's software, the computer codes that make the machine much easier to operate than any other desktop computer. The operator simply takes the mouse in hand, and a little black arrow springs to life on the screen. That arrow can then be directed toward...