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...land was available and microwave communication and its interception were not as sophisticated or as prevalent as they are today. Although the microwave problem is less severe now because of such countermeasures as coding sensitive messages, new listening devices have enhanced the Soviet embassy's physical advantages. A laser bugging technique that shoots beams against windows can decipher vibrations in the glass made by conversations. The Americans agreed to their lowly site in Moscow because it is only a mile from the Kremlin and convenient to the old embassy on Tchaikovskovo Street...
...strategic balance between the superpowers, which the U.S. feels was knocked out of kilter by increased Soviet deployments of multiwarhead land missiles. He will air American concerns about the potential upgrading of Soviet air-defense systems. He will also share U.S. ideas about how emerging weapons technologies like laser beams and other "directed energy" might be used to promote greater stability for both sides. In short, Kampelman will try to teach the Soviets to think like Ronald Reagan...
...foiled. Boost times could be shortened, perhaps to as little as 50 sec., by equipping attack missiles with more powerful rocket thrusters and toughening their skins so that they could withstand a faster trip through the atmosphere. Missiles could also be made to spin like rifle bullets, so that laser or particle beams could not dwell on one spot, and be given reflective coatings to deflect or diffuse the beams. To be sure, the Soviets would pay a price: such measures would reduce the numbers of warheads and decoys that a missile could carry, and that would make post- boost...
...bead on. Just two possibilities: the Soviets could orbit a "space mine" that would blow up near an American satellite and destroy it, or a countersatellite that would discharge a cloud of pellets, capable at orbital speeds of piercing steel, or even beach sand, which could pit and disable laser mirrors. American satellites might be defended against such attacks. But once that kind of cycle begins, says William Shuler, coordinator of S.D.I. research at Livermore, "we are going to be in the counter-countermea sure game forever...
...nature of the arms race. That issue is Star Wars, Ronald Reagan's cherished plan to render offensive nuclear missiles "impotent and obsolete" by constructing a defensive shield based in outer space. Officially termed the Strategic Defense Initiative, Star Wars would employ a variety of still emerging technologies, including laser beams and high-energy particles, to shoot down attacking warheads before they reach their targets...