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Pentagon planners triggered alarms throughout the world last week with the leak of a document suggesting the U.S. wanted to greatly expand the battlefield use of nuclear weapons - and the countries it might use them against. The proposal was a radical departure from current nuclear military thinking that nuclear weapons are best used as a threat to keep others from attacking you. The U.S. nuclear arsenal had been developed principally as a last-ditch deterrent against a Soviet invasion of Europe, and the U.S. had promoted non-proliferation by pledging not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states...
...nuclear strike in the mix, however, could spark some panicky discussions in Beijing. The U.S. is currently developing a National Missile Defense that would, even in its most limited version, effectively neutralize China's small fleet of intercontinental ballistic missiles. NMD was always going to spur China to greatly expand its own missile fleet to give it the potential to overwhelm U.S. defenses and therefore maintain a credible nuclear deterrent. That drive will be given added urgency by suggestions that the Pentagon might envisage a nuclear strike in a confrontation over Taiwan...
...identifying and cataloguing huge numbers of chemicals in the hope of finding more effective drugs, the Molecular Target Laboratory (MTL) will expand on the work of Harvard’s smaller Institute of Chemical and Cellular Biology (ICCB...
Stephen Goldsmith, a faculty director at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government said Bush has a chance to expand the Republican party’s base using his new breed of compassionate conservatism...
...initial push to expand freshman seminars came from Knowles, but Faculty and administrators said yesterday it was Pedersen’s leadership that ultimately made the initiative a success...