Word: oceanic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Conservatives want to expand the fleet to six, each carrying advanced Trident missiles bought from the U.S. Thatcher is so concerned over growing Soviet power that Tory strategists have considered the formation of a joint U.S.-European fleet based on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean...
...whose annual migrations across the arctic wastes began long before the first Siberians touched North America. Biologist David R. Klein of the Alaska Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit has already spotted trouble in a herd of some 6,000 caribou that has traditionally ranged north to south from the Arctic Ocean to the foothills of the Brooks Range. Since the coming of the pipeline, says Klein, cows with calves have shown a marked reluctance to pass under the raised stretches of the conduit and to cross the road itself. Migratory patterns also seem to have changed, and the herd may dwindle...
...Defense had scheduled an early April meeting of some of its officers at the sprawling Hershey convention center. But since the situation created by Three Mile Island was, ahem, "so uncertain," as one source put it, the brass decided to beat a strategic retreat. They rescheduled their meeting at Ocean City, Md., out of fallout range...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff went fishing in the ocean and returned emptyhanded, they'd probably blame it on a lack of available fish. In truth, there is no shortage of young men; it's just that with its reluctance to change with the times, the military is able to attract only 13% of the country's youth. Changing of the hair regulations alone would probably attract millions more into the armed forces...
...subs have only 16 missile-launching tubes aboard; Polaris missiles carry three warheads, Poseidon 14. Because the range of the Trident missile is 4,000 nautical miles, some 1,500 nautical miles greater than the Polaris and Poseidon missiles, the new subs will have a much wider expanse of ocean in which to hide while still being within striking distance of Soviet targets. Moreover, their ability to run faster and quieter than the older subs will make them harder for enemy ships to detect...