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...infusion of combat soldiers to push the insurgents out of Baghdad. The Kagan-Keane plan found an eager audience at the National Security Council and with Vice President Dick Cheney. Within days, the plan had been sold to Bush, who pulled out a lot of stops to persuade the Pentagon???as well as colleagues in Congress. One Republican lawmaker, having watched his party lose control of both houses because of the war just a few months before, told Bush in a White House meeting that he would support the surge but that the strategy was a little like throwing...
Naturally, most molecular biologists now enjoying the new prosperity point out that collaboration between universities and industry is neither new nor dangerous. Physicists and chemists, they note, have long worked for private firms?not to mention the Pentagon???with little complaint from their colleagues except, in retrospect, over the atomic bomb. Says Boyer: "Industry is far more efficient than the university in making use of scientific developments for the public good...
...with multiple warheads; the other two-thirds housed older, less formidable SS-11s with single warheads. By satellite reconnaissance, the U.S. had kept careful count as the Soviets installed the SS-19s into one-third of the D-and-P silos. Nonetheless, officials in Washington?and particularly at the Pentagon??? were worried about their future ability to distinguish MIRVed from unMlRVed rockets when mixed together as they were at D-and-P. The reason: except for a telltale domed antenna, the MIRVed SS-19 silos were virtually identical to the unMlRVed SS-11 holes...
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