Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Since he believes that naval guns are obsolete, Admiral Gorshkov has equipped almost all Soviet surface ships, from the smallest to the largest, with ship-to-ship missiles. The Soviet missiles are so-called "cruise missiles" that fly about 700 miles an hour, steer themselves either by radar or heat-seeking systems and carry either conventional or nuclear warheads. The U.S. experimented with similar weapons in the 1950s but dropped them in favor of concentrating on "the Polaris and airpower. No Western navy, in fact, has such missiles...
...they pass through the ocean depths, submarines invariably give off "scars"?traces of heat and turbulence caused by the ship's passage through the waters. The U.S. employs ultrasensitive infra-red devices in satellites and planes to look down into the oceans and detect the scars. Submarines also give off what Navymen call "an electronic signature" that, like a human fingerprint, is unique. The signature is the sum total of the sub's sounds?the beat of its screw, thump of its pumps, rustle of its wake. To detect those signatures, the U.S. uses a variety of acute listening...
...reason that Pueblo was cruising off Wonsan was to check on a report that, because of ice in Vladivostok, the Soviets had temporarily switched their Pacific sub base to Wonsan and the nearby island of Mayang-Do. The U.S. is also equipping its nuclear submarines with silent pumps and heat-dispersal systems so that the Soviets will not be able to use infra-red detection systems to locate the scars of American subs...
Carrying his speculations one step further, Green suggests that if life or its fossil remnants are found anywhere on the moon, it will probably be in the vicinity of the telltale black spots on his moon photographs. In the water released from hydrous rock by volcanic heat, he speculates, a primitive form of life might have evolved...
...paladin of explicit sex in a world still impressed by censors; he might be surprised to see how his novella The Fox had to be fixed up for 1968 movie audiences. Sex had to be put in rather than taken out. Director Mark Rydell has seen fit to heat his movie up with three gratuitous physical set-tos-girl and man in hunting cabin, girl and girl in bed, girl and herself in bathroom. The result is slick, sick psychological melodrama...