Word: shells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...half length victory in the 1963 non-race. The sophisticated Italian rig they used was designed with both the number four and the number five man rowing starboard, thus reducing the torque in the middle of the boat. Germany's world-champion Ratzeburg crew used the same type of shell...
...Dense Pack system. His paper warned that if the Soviet Union tries to challenge the MX with "more powerful and deadly weapons," the U.S. will be able to add more silos near the proposed Dense Pack field and move some of the 100 MX missiles into them, adding a shell-game kind of deception. "We would prefer that the Soviets dismantle SS-18s [which can carry either ten 1-megaton warheads or a single 25-megaton monster] rather than we build more holes," Reagan said. "But we can accommodate either." Weinberger had advised Reagan not to mention this option...
...were being asked to buy an extremely expensive insurance policy with very small print warning that it might never pay off. For another, most members of Congress are sure to howl, "Not in my backyard, thank you!" The skinny Dense Pack basing mode, like the Race Track and the Shell Game and 29 others before it, is an accommodation to the hard fact that any large-scale MX scheme is subject to this double jeopardy. Political objections could, and should, be overcome if the weapon were truly essential to our defense. But in this instance, its military shortcomings magnify...
...acute irony here. Reagan's predecessor, Jimmy Carter, supported two of Dense Pack's forerunners, in part because he hoped to prove he was pro-defense and thereby win the support of Pentagon and congressional hawks for the beleaguered SALT II treaty. In the end, the Shell Game and Race Track ideas fell of their own weight, and Carter still failed to get SALT II ratified...
Salem remembers those years as formative. "Having nothing else to do, I used to play basketball outside in the court alone. Often I would be playing and a shell would drop, so I would have to run home. It was a very risky and sobering experience--dealing with death every single...