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Inter-service rivalries continually compel the upgrading of the strategic nuclear "triad" (bombers, land-based missiles, and submarine-launched missiles). Although the Navy already has a perfectly adequate Poseidon submarine force with more than 5000 virtually invulnerable nuclear warheads, this soon will be augmented by the astronomically expensive Trident submarines. (Each sub, without any missiles, is estimated to cost $1.2 billion...
...best known among the few bronzes that survived from this period are the Poseidon in the Athens National Archaeological Museum and the charioteer in Delphi. In their restored state, the two statues at the Florence museum rank with this select company. Scholars and amateurs alike have been fascinated by both the perfection of the preservation and the skill of the statues' creators, as reflected in such details as the whorls of a beard, the braids of a headband, the shiny, silver-plated teeth and the copper lips, eyelashes and nipples...
...radar. Stories about the aircraft began appearing in such technical journals as Defense Daily and Aerospace Daily as early as 1975. The Stealth project was not even stamped classified until 1977 by Defense Secretary Harold Brown; items continued to appear after that year. In 1979 a novel called Poseidon's Shadow described the use of an oddly shaped U.S. spy plane named Stealth F in a confrontation against the Soviets. Author Allen Paul Kobryn says he got the idea from stories in Aviation Week and the New York Times...
...running through the flaming conflagration of The Towering Inferno in his first appearance on the big screen, only to hand Fred Astaire Jennifer Jones' cat--and leave Jennifer Jones to roast in the skyscraper. Or the likes of shipmate Roddy McDowall, saving some singing blonde floozy when the cruiser Poseidon rolled over and played dead--only to end up a piece of fondue in the ship's smokestack...
...tragedy like the "Poseidon Adventure," although the 1978 debacle certainly ranks with the greatest shipwreck imitations ever seen, but tragedy as in Aristotle and the "Poetics" and "Antigone." Irresistible tragedy...