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...Iraqis may have already taken othersteps to deter a direct military response...
Nuclear targeting is admittedly a complicated business. Planners must calculate the reliability and accuracy of the missiles and nuclear warheads, measure them against Soviet defenses and make a judgment on what it actually takes to deter the Kremlin from launching a first strike. Still, the notion of raining down nuclear weapons on the U.S.S.R. -- "convincing every last Soviet official that he's the target," as one Air Force official put it -- is sufficiently outrageous to spur experts to speak out. In the quarterly journal International Security, national security scholars Desmond Ball and Robert Toth call the current version of SIOP...
...legislature, I would vote against capital punishment. The U.S. is the only country among the Western democracies that still has it. I'm not sure that the taking of one life is justified by the taking of another. Also, contrary to what many people assume, capital punishment does not deter murder. There are about 20,000 murders committed in the U.S. each year, and that's been a fairly consistent figure. The U.S. permits unlimited sale and ownership of handguns, and the murder rate reflects that to some extent...
...trouble is, NATO is broken, at least conceptually. Its reason for being was to deter the Soviet Union from launching an invasion through West Germany to the English Channel. With that danger diminished to the vanishing point, NATO is already undergoing its own deconstruction, more subtle, dignified and gradual than that of the Warsaw Pact but in the long run just as relentless...
...spite of the gold rush, the awakening region has pitfalls to investment that can deter all but the hardiest risk takers. Since East European currencies cannot be readily converted into dollars or other hard cash, Westerners must often take their profits in bartered goods, such as clothing or foodstuffs, which can be sold in other Western countries. At the same time, the area remains plagued by grasping bureaucrats, archaic trade rules and primitive roads, phone systems and factories. Says Jan Vanous, research director of Plan-Econ, a Washington-based consulting group that studies Eastern Europe: "Investing there is really...