Word: kineticism
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SDI remained high on the Kremlin agenda when Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze arrived in Washington last month to work on the details of the INF pact. He brought with him a proposal refining Soviet demands that research and development of Star Wars weapons be restricted. Under the new Soviet plan...
Reagan Administration planners believe the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative system, if deployed, would pose a far more dramatic threat to Soviet satellites. Armed with kinetic rockets and, ultimately, particle beams, SDI would pose a greater danger to satellites than to its ostensible targets, incoming Soviet strategic missiles. Indeed, that may...
Even by the tongue-twisting standards of the Star Wars lexicon, the newcomer is something of a mouthful: space-based kinetic kill vehicles, or SBKKVs for short. Some scientists refer to them as "smart rocks," since they are basically just projectiles designed to smack into enemy missiles. But they also...
Our carpet, battered and bruised by forces beyond its comprehension, awaited the next impact of our mini-wrecking ball. Tiny punctures in its rayon skin were mute testimonials to the kinetic fusion of a warped student wielding two pounds of round, steel government surplus.
If ever a subject demanded this treatment, though, Arthur Kopit '59 has hit upon it. In this play, his most autobiographical to date, Kopit confronts the unthinkable, the day of doom threatened by nuclear weaponry. The result is a surprisingly even-handed scenario despite the potentially heavy-handed enterprise. With...