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Asked whom he had in mind, Bovin pulled from a pile of papers on his desk the summer 1980 issue of Foreign Policy magazine. He pointed to an article co-authored by Colin Gray titled, straightforwardly, "Victory Is Possible." Gray, a conservative nuclear strategist from the Hudson Institute, is now a consultant to the State Department. In the article he theorizes that, with greatly increased offensive and defensive programs, the U.S. could hold casualties in a war to 20 million-"a level compatible with national survival and recovery...
...giant Sno-Cone wrapped in plastic. In fact, the mound is the tip of an iceberg. Beneath it, nestled into a 10-ft.-deep hole in the ground, is a thick heap of slowly melting ice. To its creator, Theodore Taylor, a nuclear physicist turned alternative-energy researcher, the pile of ice is proof that there are better and cheaper ways than air conditioning to cool people...
...slush drained to the bottom, leaving ice granules above. A system of pipes and pumps drew off the ice water from the bottom of the pond, and it was recirculated by other pipes and pumps back to the snowmaker. The water was then sprayed out onto the pile all over again, as slush, adding still more ice granules to the growing mound. After several weeks, a compact mound of ice about 30 ft. thick had been formed...
...fission bomb that had ever been exploded. In the 1960s he worked on the U.S. Air Force's Project Orion, an aborted fission-powered spaceship that was supposed to explore the solar system. For now, Taylor is happy with his melting ice mound. Says he: "Standing on that pile of ice is pure adventure. We are developing the first renewable-energy cooling system that is competitive with electrical air conditioning...
...Pakistan, from which the U.S. cut off supplies in 1979 because of its nuclear stirrings. (There is a fascinating theory abroad that a superabundance of conventional weapons quashes an appetite for nuclear weapons; it is not based in human nature.) Both the Soviets and Americans have continued to pile up their own arsenals, each trying to get ahead of the other permanently, which is impossible, and thus enticing newcomer nations to build up their armaments as well. And who are these nations? They are the unstable, the zealous, the military-controlled, the lunatic-led. They do not share...