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...difficult to predict, high-impact events. The short history of nuclear weapons is already scattered with unplanned and seemingly improbable incidents that suggest we feel more secure than we should. In 1995, a communication failure with the Russian Embassy led the Russian military to believe that a weather rocket launched off the coast of Norway was an incoming submarine-launched ballistic missile. In the 1980s, malfunctioning U.S. missile defense systems relayed information to U.S. officials of a massive incoming first strike - twice. As recently as 2007, a U.S. Air Force plane flew across the American heartland while unknowingly carrying several...
USAGE: "To clear a huge backlog of foreclosures, judges [in Lee County, Fla.] are hearing 'rocket dockets' of nearly 1,000 cases a day." --Wall Street Journal...
...Rocket docket n.--A rapid-fire courtroom schedule utilized by judges in special circumstances...
...Tijuana. That campaign has coincided with skyrocketing violence, as criminal gangs wage war on government forces and on one another, leaving more than 5,300 dead last year. Many citizens support the soldiers, whom they see as Mexico's only hope against thugs armed with high-powered rifles and rocket-propelled grenades. Still, the National Human Rights Commission has documented hundreds of accusations of military abuses, including the killing of at least 13 unarmed civilians and the rape of four women...
...base was firebombed; Taliban militants were blamed even though they are not known to operate in that area. Says a former prosecutor at the Attorney General's office: "Mohammad is such a powerful person in Badakhshan that he can cause many problems if his demands are not answered--even rocket attacks and roadside bombs." Mohammad, whose militia provides security for NATO troops and aid organizations, denies threatening groups that don't hire his services. "Why should I do that?" he asks. "I know they are here to rebuild Afghanistan. I am just trying to find [my guys] jobs...