Word: deployable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They have a term project to develop and deploy a cruise missile in the bell tower, and then use it to blow up the Lampoon sometime during reading period. It's 50 percent of their grade, and they were afraid they'd have to cancel the project if Adams House inspired a similar anti-nuke movement in Lowell. They're already past the date when they can drop the course without penalty...
...response would be out of human hands: it would be activated by computer before U.S. commanders even knew that a battle had begun. Fletcher insists that the "hardware requirements" are almost "within the state of the art" now, though 20 years or more might be needed to develop and deploy the battle program...
...Berets: one of several elite battalions about 600 strong trained in antiguerrilla warfare by North Korean and Vietnamese military advisers in 1983. The Sandinistas have a big edge in modern equipment, like Soviet AK-47 rifles and T-55 tanks. The rebels are nervously waiting for the Sandinistas to deploy their new Hind-D helicopters, which can fly 200 m.p.h. and carry air-to-surface missiles...
...just set off a new and dangerous round in the arms race as each side looked for ways to overwhelm the other's defenses. "If the new technologies cannot meet these standards," said Nitze in a speech to the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, "we are not about to deploy them...
...Testing of weapons has continued. Our effort is essential right now, because if you can't test, you can't produce and you can't deploy," said Grodzins, who represented Massachusetts' seventh Congressional district at a national freeze convention in St. Louis last year...