Word: deploying
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...next stage: threatening each other directly by placing nuclear warheads atop missiles. By week's end, the Pakistani government was denying rumors that its Ghauri missile, whose 930-mile range can reach all major cities in India, was already being capped with nuclear warheads. But both countries could probably deploy nuclear-tipped missiles within months. Since those missiles could reach their targets in 10 minutes or less, "you have a situation where either side, thinking its forces may be under attack, would launch on warning," says a Clinton aide. And without satellites to spot the other side's preparations...
Your excellent detective story about the emergence of avian flu [MEDICINE, Feb. 23] was an important reminder that the most threatening bioterrorist may not be a belligerent Iraqi, a lunatic cult or a white-supremacist group but nature itself. Without warning and with little provocation, nature can deploy an army of rats and mice and an air force of birds and stealthy bats to deliver a swarm of deadly new viruses. All we can do is react to the first casualties of such an attack. EDWARD MCSWEEGAN Crofton...
...Little Rock, where Clinton is still a favorite son, before 12 jurors, and Jones would need a unanimous verdict to win. That's a big gamble, especially against a man with record approval ratings, whose capacity to get in trouble is exceeded only by the charm he can deploy in getting...
Even the most ardent Saddam hunters have to admit that taking him out would entail a huge, high-risk military operation: months of preparation to deploy thousands of ground troops to fight their way to the Iraqi capital while courting substantial casualties, then arrest or kill him. The U.S. would be pitched into an open-ended occupation and saddled with rescuing a devastated economy...
Forget all the silo-rattling: TIME's Defense Department correspondent, Mark Thompson, says the United States won't deploy nukes against Iraq. Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon had insisted that should Iraq use biological or chemical weapons, America's response would be "decisive and devastating." Asked if that would include nuclear weapons, he replied: "I don't think we've ruled anything in or out in this regard." Don't believe it, says Thompson: "It's just as it was during the Gulf War ? the response will be strictly conventional and likely massive...