Word: precisionism
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Inside Kuwait, meanwhile, resistance members wait. When the war started, techno-euphoria erupted. As they watched the CNN telecasts from Dubai, they marveled at the allied coalition's precision weapons. Expecting almost instant liberation, they began to joke. "We told each other we were going to beat the record," said...
For military planners, the apparent success of their high-tech equipment in the early weeks of the battle is sweet vindication. Though Operation Desert Storm still relies in part on armaments of Vietnam War and even World War II vintage, the Pentagon has staked its reputation on its state-of...
The secret of the Tomahawk's precision flying is a two-step guidance system. First, a radar altimeter compares the topography of key landmarks along the missile's flight path with detailed contour maps stored in its computer memory. Then, as the Tomahawk approaches its target, a small digital camera...
Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro. This collection of 10 shimmering stories should put to rest, at least for a while, the old canard that nothing interesting ever happens in Canada. The author, who lives near Lake Huron, writes about the lives, times and loves of her countrymen and...
The effort has been impeded because virtually no country capable of manufacturing centrifuges is willing to sell them to Iraq. Baghdad has thus embarked on a strategy of purchasing the technology and materials necessary to construct its own centrifuges. Tales abound of secretive transfers of nuclear- related technology -- some completed...