Word: deployments
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...crafty foe wouldn't limit itself to the Pentagon's single, simple decoy. The enemy could slip its warhead inside a decoy balloon and deploy it along with a dozen identical balloons, forcing the Pentagon into a futile effort to destroy all of them. The warhead might be cloaked in a shroud of liquid nitrogen, chilling it so that the interceptor's heat-seeking sensors couldn't find it. Chemical or biological weapons might be deployed in dozens of bomblets far too numerous to destroy...
Compromising on the principle of e2e would weaken the Internet. It would increase the costs of innovation. If to deploy a new technology or the next killer application--like the World Wide Web was in the early 1990s or gadgets to link the home to the Net may someday become--you first have to negotiate with every cable interest or with every AOL, then fewer innovations will be made. The Internet will calcify to support present-day uses--which is great for the monopolies of today but terrible for the future that the Internet could...
...quite "phasers on stun" - or not yet, anyway - but the U.S. appears to have finally developed a battlefield laser weapon. Now the question is whether it's up to its mission. The Pentagon announced Thursday that the Tactical High Energy Laser (THEL) designed for Israel to deploy on its northern border was successfully tested in New Mexico Tuesday against an armed Katyusha rocket (the favored artillery of the Hezbollah guerrillas for attacking northern Israeli towns). The system tracked the incoming rocket, and blew it up with an invisible laser beam created by a chemical reaction in a battlefield weapon. "This...
...system has been developed, at a cost of some $200 million, to strengthen Israel's northern border in the wake of its withdrawal from Lebanon. "It's more analogous to the Patriot than anything else," explains Thompson, referring to the interceptor missile system deployed in Israel and Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War to defend against Iraq's SCUD missiles. But that system had a verifiable kill rate of only 25 percent of incoming missiles, according to a General Accounting Office study, and the new weapon faces a more complex challenge. "The Patriot system was cued by satellites whenever...
...shield against missiles that might some day be fired by "rogue states." Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott said Sunday that "President Putin made absolutely clear to President Clinton that Russia continues to oppose changes to the ABM treaty that the United States has proposed." In order to deploy the proposed missile-defense system, the U.S. would have to either convince Russia to amend the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, which forbids either side from adding to its missile-defense systems, or else back out of the treaty. But the Russians warn that scrapping the treaty - which is based...