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...MIRV: Multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicle, one of a cluster of nuclear warheads mounted on a single missile that can be hurled at different targets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Arms and the Talks: A Glossary | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

...accounts from Baghdad, the Soviet Union has supplied Iraq with air-to-surface missiles capable of hitting Kharg Island and other targets deep within Iran. The Iraqis reportedly also have received the Soviet SS-12 missile, which has a range of 500 miles, as well as 5,000 cluster bombs from Chile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: Pushing the Saudis Too Far | 6/18/1984 | See Source »

...want to assume that everyone's going to take a single magical cluster of courses," Federman says. "We want to develop new courses to, is a sense, get around the Chem 20 bottleneck," says Verba...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: Making med school easier to swallow | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

...meantime bands of looters had dug into the tombs of the 500-acre area, carrying off jewelry, pottery and carvings. Once at the Guatemalan site, Adams turned his attention to a spot less than a mile from a 130-ft.-high pyramid that was flanked by a cluster of temples. Workers digging an exploratory trench discovered that flakes of flint had been scattered through a layer of masonry, a funerary custom of the Maya. Digging farther, the archaeologists uncovered the remains of a stone platform and the outline of a plaster dome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Buried Treasure in the Jungle | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

Brigadier General Norman ("Dutch") Cota, assistant commander of the 29th Division, waved his .45 pistol as he strode heedlessly through the gunfire. When he found a cluster of soldiers in the shelter of the embankment, he asked them who they were. They said they were Rangers. "Then, goddammit," said the general, "if you're Rangers, get up and lead the way." They did. Under the cover of a brushfire that had been started by the Navy shelling, 35 men managed to scale the bluffs and get behind the German gun positions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day: Every Man Was a Hero A Military Gamble that Shaped History | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

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