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...night in June 1984, a test ICBM soared up from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Thousands of miles away in the middle of the Pacific, another rocket was launched on Kwajalein Island. It contained an infrared sensor powerful enough to detect heat from a human body 1,000 miles away. Closing at 15,000 m.p.h., the rocket locked onto the ICBM, intercepting it in midflight and destroying it by sheer physical impact. So devastating was the hit that the remaining shards of the ICBM's warhead measured less than an inch across...
Sources apparently within the SDI program told the Times that the 1984 launchings did not prove the efficacy of the heat-seeking infrared sensor. Rather, the target ICBM carried a beacon that guided the interceptor rocket toward a set-up collision. Officials involved with the test have vigorously defended the test results. Said General Eugene Fox, the retired Army missile- defense chief: "We didn't gimmick anything." William Inglis, the experiment's civilian test director, dismissed the accusations of an SDI hoax as "technical nonsense." There was indeed a beacon, but, said Inglis, it served only for "range safety" purposes...
...whose son shared a hospital room with Gore's son]..." Gaffes .Showed up for the debate. .For a time, he ran "his own little civilization" where he was "soveriegn." .Promised the press "letters" that will prove his points after the debate. .Admits Bush only has "commitment" from Yeltsin on ICBM missiles. .Can you say coaching? He may have overcome stiffness on the campaign trail, but last night was worse than anything from 1988. Stock Phrases .Quoted Ross Perot. .Otherwise, he managed to make Quayle sound eloquent. Did they put a metal plate in his skull in Vietnam? ."Raise your taxes...
...hundred twenty-five miles just happens, as it turns out, to be the blast radius of the average Soviet ICBM...
Though collecting from the skies is expensive, it allows access to places that were once unreachable, such as Soviet ICBM sites. But such data do not always reveal intentions. Aerial surveillance showed that Saddam had moved his army to Iraq's border with Kuwait last summer. It could not reveal whether he intended that merely as an act of intimidation or as a prelude to attack. Neither will technical spying prowess be able to predict popular uprisings like those that swept across Iran in 1979 or the Soviet Union this year. "You don't sense the mood of the bazaar...