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Achieving the degree of effectiveness that would provide a shield for the entire U.S. population, the panel said, depends on the ability to intercept Soviet missiles just after they have been launched, when their heat-emitting rocket engines provide a distinctive radar clue. No such "signature" is available during later stages of deployment, and detection is further complicated after the booster phase, when the rocket fires multiple reentry vehicles, including some decoys. Even if only 5% of Soviet missiles penetrated the space shield, the group argued, as many as 60 million Americans would...
...pollution effects." Plant Pathologist Robert Bruck of North Carolina State University points out that tree growth slowed down in the early 1960s, just after extensive industrial expansion in the Ohio and Tennessee valleys. Says he: "Pollution from these industries got sent East, and the first things to intercept it were the forests at higher elevations...
...Britain have drawn up contingency plans to protect the Persian Gulf in the event of interference with international shipping. Both countries are prepared to escort vessels entering and leaving the gulf, carry out minesweeping operations and if necessary use force to prevent Iranian sea or air efforts to intercept oil traffic. The U.S. Navy maintains four ships in the Persian Gulf, besides a 30-ship flotilla, led by the aircraft carrier Midway, in the Indian Ocean. Britain has a missile-equipped destroyer, a modern frigate and a tanker in the region...
...Star Wars speech last spring, Ronald Reagan suggested that instead of deterring nuclear attack exclusively by threatening nuclear retaliation, the U.S. should build a kind of electronic shield to "intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reach our own soil." Last week that grandiose sci-fi vision moved closer to becoming U.S. policy. Reagan and his National Security Council approved in principle a fiveyear, $21 billion plan to begin more rapidly developing an arsenal of space weapons, in particular orbiting "ray guns" that would fire intense beams of energy at enemy missiles. Said Edward Teller, the father...
...officials dismiss this scenario as ludicrous. The two planes, they say, passed each other 86 miles apart headed in opposite directions. At first, the Soviets reportedly referred to the Korean jet as an RC-135. Relays of fighters-ten in all, according to Ogar-were sent aloft to intercept the wayward plane; it evidently took them more than two hours to make visual contact. Visual contact should have confirmed that it was a commercial 747. The passenger plane is 50% larger than the RC-135. Its navigation and strobe lights were on. (Asked about the lights, Ogarkov asserted that...