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...would such a war start? Most experts now dismiss the once fashionable "bolt-out-of-the-blue" scenario. William Hyland, a longtime strategic specialist for the Nixon, Ford and Carter administrations and now a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, fears that World War III might begin not as World War II did, with a Nazi blitzkrieg in the West and a Japanese sneak attack in the East, but as World War I did, with a combination of bumbling, inadvertence, events getting out of control and just plain bad luck. Says he: "If there is ever...
...nuclear attack on the U.S. might consist of hundreds of missiles or a few. One military base, or scores of cities, might be targeted. But the results are chillingly predictable. The following hypothetical scenario is based on a study by the congressional Office of Technology Assessment...
That bitter game has long fascinated George Steiner, 52, polymathic professor of literature and author of brilliant essays ranging from Homer to Schoenberg and Heidegger. So when he heard that Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal had found the spoor of Mass Murderer Martin Bormann, he began to concoct a scenario: What might happen if a group of Jewish avengers located the Führer? The resulting novel, The Portage to San Cristóbal of A.H., has already aroused angry controversy in Britain ("Astonishing," Anthony Burgess wrote in the Observer, but the New Statesman charged "subversive admiration for Hitler"). The controversy...
...Hawking's scenario for doamsday does not include the earth vanishing into a black hole that was once the sun Only stars about and a half times as big as our sum have enough mass to form...
...guilty as anyone for overlooking this clause, our attention on the provisions giving student funding and a more centralized structure. But it's difficult to imagine any scenario in which the council's performance would benefit by closed sessions. The consummate provision is that it would permit a body sanctioned percent of the student body to close its meetings the same public whose $10 tuition surcharges council...