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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard officials said last week they are slowly vacating a University-owned apartment building on Mt. Auburn St., in preparation for large-scale renovation, demolition or sale of the property...
This kind of contingency planning for a less than total war, sometimes called the "least awful option," is attracting attention among civilian defense experts serving congressional committees. Even Secretary of Defense Harold Brown admits that while "we should remain skeptical about small-scale nuclear demonstrations," the U.S. should preserve "the capability for a small-scale demonstration...
...obvious, enormous danger. Once the military nuclear threshold is crossed, there is no guarantee that the momentum can be controlled to keep the exchange limited. Warns Secretary Brown: The use of "any nuclear weapons. . . carries a very high risk, though not the certainty, of escalating to a full-scale thermonuclear exchange...
...question: How would the world change if SALT II failed or were not ratified on the American side? I have no doubt that the world would lapse back not only into a full-scale arms race between the East and West but also into another cold...
...Large-scale commercial applications of solar power are also being examined, including one far-out idea to send up a solar satellite that could beam energy to earth in the form of microwaves. At Sandia Labs, in New Mexico, the DOE is testing components for future solar-power tower systems. Large arrays of computer-directed mirrors, or heliostats, reflect and concentrate the sunlight on a tower containing a steam boiler linked to an electricity-producing turbine. This October, Southern California Edison Co. will start building the nation's first such device linked to a power grid. Located in Daggett...