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...irrelevant, given the end of the cold war and the tumult in the U.S.S.R. But precisely because the future of that country is so uncertain, it's all the more important to make sure that one factor in the Soviet equation -- the size and composition of the Strategic Rocket Forces -- remains predictable...
...world in denouncing the U.S.S.R. as an "evil empire," led by men who "reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat." The No. 1 task of the U.S. was to prevent the Warsaw Pact from invading Western Europe and the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces from launching nuclear war against the American homeland...
...much more plausible danger that Soviet tactical nukes, as well as chemical and biological weapons, might end up in the hands of secessionist rebels in the U.S.S.R. or shady merchants in the international arms bazaar. Still, American defense planners cannot entirely rule out the possibility that the Strategic Rocket Forces might pose a threat to the U.S. in the future, which is particularly uncertain in the case of the U.S.S.R...
...popular saying goes, "You don't have to be a rocket scientist to . . ." The problem, of course, is that NASA is full of rocket scientists, but its fatal flaws always turn out to be of the homely variety. The engineers can rebuild computers floating upside down in space, but they forget to talk to one another on the ground. So the managers of the Hubble Space Telescope didn't know there may have been something wrong with the mirror's shape, and the launch officials didn't know O rings could stiffen in the cold. It is no knock...
...away, and they are still coming. Today they are creating jobs in Orlando at a rate three times the national average. Patriot missiles, infrared sights for night warfare and other inventions of the Star Wars era are assembled only a few miles from the site where tourists board fantasy rocket rides based on George Lucas' Star Wars. Disney World has the Space Mountain roller coaster; Orlando has FreeFlight Zephyrhills, a firm that is experimenting with wind- tunnel technology to simulate a skydiving experience on the ground. Disney's Epcot Center has Michael Jackson in 3-D as Captain Eo; Orlando...