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...request to test the world's most powerful combat simulator. The fate of the earth after the fall out cleared is classified information, but it is no secret that the sophistication of the computer program that created the war game made a big hit with the brass. Says Lieut Colonel Robert Crissman of the Army's Training and Doctrine Command: "It exceeded our expectations...
...reduced to rubble. Forests erupt in flames, represented by flickering red dots. Temperature, humidity and wind speed must be reckoned with; they affect the way fallout will blow and how fast a fireball will spread. "You get a real feeling for the dynamics and time pressures of combat," says Lieut Colonel Crissman...
...Army argues that such lessons are best learned well in advance of real-life combat situations. It's a fantastic tool for training " says Lieut. Colonel Robert Turner, a nuclear-weapons specialist at the Pentagon. Others are not so sure. Jerome Wiesner, former president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and sometime presidential science adviser, suggests that no amount of computer training will enable U.S. generals to prevent Europe from being turned into a big lake" if there is a nuclear war on that continent. One young computer buff who recently used Janus found the experience extremely unsettling...
BORN. To Rhea Seddon, 34, one of eight women astronauts and an M.D. trained to conduct experiments in orbit, and Navy Lieut. Commander Robert L. Gibson, 35, also an astronaut and a jet pilot: a son, her first child, his second; in Houston. Within twelve hours of his birth, the first U.S. astrotot logged a helicopter flight after he developed breathing problems and had to be transferred to a second hospital. At week's end his pneumonia-like condition seemed to be under control...
...stabs him. The body and the writing are found by American soldiers, liberators of the death camps. Captain Freyberg, a fanatical Nazi-hunter who ironically places the Dachau gate sign, ARBEIT MACHT FREI (Work shall set you free), over his desk, checks off Mauberley as one more fascist corpse. Lieut. Quinn is not so sure. He begins to examine the handwriting on the wall...