Word: pentagon
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That point was underlined by Herbert Scoville Jr., a former Pentagon special weapons project chief and former deputy CIA director. Scoville, whose objections apply not only to the neutron bomb but to all tactical nukes, wrote in the New York Times: "Our security depends on strengthening, not breaking, the barrier between nuclear and conventional conflicts. The neutron bomb should be put back on the shelf, and we should instead concentrate on developing ways of deterring aggression by conventional means...
...some sort of trouble, but both Beech and General Dynamics are in strong shape. With military sales accounting for 55% of General Dynamics' total revenues ($2.5 billion last year), the firm is the nation's largest defense contractor. With nearly a decade of squabbles with the Pentagon regarding cost overruns on the F-111 fighter now behind it, General Dynamics' current multi-billion-dollar contract to produce 500 hot, single-engine F-16 interceptors for four NATO countries and the U.S. promises to keep earning income for the company for perhaps the next two decades...
Carter was also impressed by Pentagon reports that despite the B-1's speed of up to 1,320 m.p.h. and its ability to slip under enemy radar defenses, weapons advances would probably make it vulnerable to Soviet defenses by the 1980s...
...have a decided advantage over Bls in carrying cruise missiles. Pentagon plans call for stowing eight ALCM-A or ALCM-B missiles aboard each modified B-52. In addition, twelve ALCM-B missiles would be attached to the B-52's wings. Though the B-l's bomb bay can accommodate 24 of the shorter-range ALCM-As, it is too small for the ALCM-Bs; nor can the B-l carry any variety of cruise missile on its wings...
Jeff, a Berkeley Bakunin, worked at shutting down the Establishment and the war; Susie kept nagging him to take a shower and use deodorant. They became, writes Sara Davidson, "a showpiece couple. They demonstrated and went to jail together." They did everything together except levitate the Pentagon. Tasha, with her Pre-Raphaelite beauty, was the arty one. She fell in love with a well-known sculptor and worried about having small breasts...