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...heavily guarded launchpad at Vandenberg Air Force Base, 125 miles up the Pacific Coast from Los Angeles, a 63-ft.-tall gleaming white rocket sits and waits. Secreted in the nose of the 37-year-old Minuteman II is a 5-ft.-long cone--a mock warhead--and a deflated Mylar balloon. Let's say they are part of an incoming missile from North Korea or Iran. Meanwhile...
About 4,800 miles away on Kwajalein Atoll, perched atop a Pacific coral reef, another rocket sits and waits. Nestled inside its nose cone is a $20 million bullet known as the exoatmospheric kill vehicle. It looks more like a mobile moonshine still than a snub-nosed round, but in the vacuum of space, there are no points for style. Its job is to find and then destroy the incoming "warhead" from Pyongyang or Tehran...
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DIED. MAURICE RICHARD, 78, a.k.a. "the Rocket," perennial hockey All-Star who netted eight Stanley Cups during his 18-year career with the Montreal Canadiens, and whose name appears on the NHL trophy given each year to the league's top goal scorer; in Montreal...
...might hypothetically be able to help them make an existing arsenal smaller, cheaper or more efficient. The way the U.S. builds nuclear weapons is so sophisticated that most other countries wouldn't be able to replicate it, even if they had the blueprints - let's just say it is rocket science." But speaking of espionage, Comrade Putin may want a few explanations from his own security establishment about just what classified information on Russian nuclear weapons was doing at Los Alamos in the first place...