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...would be destroyed, and even as far as four miles away, wood and brick buildings would collapse and burst into flames. But that devastation is not sufficient for the Pentagon. U.S. nuclear-attack plans call for raining 120 warheads on Moscow alone -- a level of targeting, says veteran arms expert Peter Zimmerman, that "isn't strategy, it's pathology...
...attack against even a fraction of these targets "would cause the Soviet Union to cease functioning as a society," says Stanford professor Scott Sagan, a former adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Yet arms expert Janne Nolan of the Brookings Institution contends that the "American political leadership is not aware of the enormous destruction envisioned in the military plans." The point is illustrated by official estimates of what would happen to the U.S. if the Soviets launched a surprise attack of 3,000 warheads, a mere quarter of their inventory. The Federal Emergency Management Agency says that between...
...Soccer expert Rico DiCenso, of Pinocchio's pizza parlor, said the Germans had a distinct psychological advantage...
...banks for review and promised to hire a chief financial officer to scrutinize the Trump Organization, which manages his holdings. "Trump won't have to get permission to go to the toilet, but on anything else he'll have to ask the banks," quipped a Wall Street expert familiar with the deal...
...major obstacle: determining the real value of businesses. Says Wolfgang Nagel, a member of the West Berlin state government: "Compensating all these claims could lead to economic, political and social catastrophe in East Germany." Says Richard Motzsch, an expert on East German property claims at the West German Ministry for Inter-German Affairs: "Emotions are running very high on this issue, but we must be careful not to commit new injustices while trying to correct old ones...