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...band of pre-eminent scientists and war-fighters has concluded that the nation's military might isn't powerful enough for the 21st Century; and so the National Research Council (NRC), an independent, congressionally-chartered body charged with assessing scientific issues, is urging the Pentagon and Congress to get cracking on developing a weapon capable of hitting any target in the world within an hour of being launched...
...NRC's Committee on Conventional Prompt Global Strike Capability believes that there are threats (like nuclear terrorism) that the Pentagon's fleets of attack planes and missiles cannot handle and which have to be stopped with the immediacy of the push of a button by a future U.S. President. It's not quite a "death ray" but it's the closest existing technology can get to that fantasy weapon. Still, skeptics roll their eyes and say that the report's authors are like a bunch of junior high school boys who have seen all the James Bond movies and believe...
...subtle study, dealing in moods, not discourse. It is, after all, titled In Europe, not On Europe, and throughout, it is more interested in images and events than ideas. Mak spent 1999 criss-crossing the Continent in a rattling blue camper van, sending dispatches to the Dutch paper NRC Handelsblad. These reports, collected here, create a journey through the last century, with Mak breaking up what is essentially traditional, narrative history with short, contemporary portraits of historical settings. So Mak settles down to write about World War I from a farm in Ypres. He tells us about Hitler's disastrous...
...profound misunderstanding of nuclear plant operations, security, and emergency planning. Zamore not only cited “The Simpsons” but also the Nagasaki bomb and Chernobyl in her effort to discredit Vermont Yankee. The fact is that Vermont Yankee has always operated safely; Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) inspections have rated it at the highest (best) regulatory classification. This is attributable to everyone in the organization having a clear safety focus, making conservative decisions, and doing timely maintenance and upgrades.The op-ed reflected no understanding of our recent search for two small fuel rod segments in the plant?...
...were so embarrassingly bad that the tests were discontinued. Safety first.) Vermont Yankee is not alone in failing the mock attacks, but it does have the honor of having “the largest number of weaknesses of any reactor that has been tested,” according to NRC spokesman Neil Sheehan...