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...startling disclosures, in its breadth of detail it is convincing-and even frightening. There are illustrations-drawn in rather crude Flash Gordon style from satellite photos-of the new 25,000-ton Typhoon missile submarine, an SS-20 launch site, the experimental T-80 tank and surface-to-air laser weapons. Maps target where Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles and intermediate-range SS-20s have been placed, chart the location of Soviet divisions, and illustrate the sweep of Soviet adventurism around the globe, complete with lists of technicians and advisers stationed abroad. To bolster its point that Moscow is forever building...
...Soviets will be able to deploy laser weapons against planes and troops by the mid-1980s...
...like a victorious boxer's. Though some editorial writers expressed discomfort about the shuttle's military role, others dismissed such fears. Commented the Chicago Tribune: "It appears we will get into a space arms race whether we like it or not . . . So fly aloft, Columbia!; deliver your laser guns and satellite busters and spy eyes. Build your battlestars. May the Force be with...
...early as next year, during the shuttle's scheduled fourth flight, it will carry an experimental military payload in its cargo bay: infra-red and laser tracking devices designed to guide future shuttle pilots to orbiting satellites for repair or retrieval-or perhaps for destruction. The experiment's disclosure has already brought a pained outcry from the Kremlin. Though the Soviets are actively experimenting with military lasers, they charge that the U.S. is planning to introduce laser weaponry into space...
...place weaponry in space." But at the same time, the U.S.S.R. is known to have demonstrated "killer" satellites that can knock other satellites out of the sky. To meet this threat, the U.S. is considering anti-satellite weapons of its own. Eventually these may even include high-powered laser and particle beams that could destroy a hostile satellite or an incoming missile. In 1980, then Secretary of Defense Harold Brown declared the shuttle essential to future U.S. military planning. However true that was a year ago, it is a great deal truer...