Word: silo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reduces the temptation to attack a concentration of warheads in one location. For example, let us assume that both Side A and Side B have ten missiles with four warheads per missile, for a total of forty warheads each. If two warheads are needed to destroy one missile silo, Side A can use half of its missiles (20 warheads) in order to destroy all of Side B's missiles. This would leave Side B totally defenseless and Side A with twenty warheads! This illustrates the great temptation for either side to initiate a first strike. The idea of having just...
...were confiscated last year by the DEA, roughly twice as much as the year before. The Justice Department last year seized more than $100 million worth of property and other assets. Among the diverse booty that must be managed and eventually sold: a jewelry store in Mississippi, a grain silo in Iowa, a floating dry-dock in Hawaii, 123 beef hindquarters in Pennsylvania and 1,700 cases of toothpaste seized in New Jersey...
...have. With a range of almost 2000 miles, it may be launched from airplanes, trucks, ships and subs. Easily conceded and mobile, the cruise would be almost invulnerable to Soviet attack, thus maintaining deference no matter what the scenario. A flexible weapon, it is equally effective on hard (silo) or soft (city) targets and useful in either strategic or tactical war. Accurate up to a few feet, the cruise zig zags to avoid defenses and subsequently can penetrate USSR airspace as successfully as ICBM...
...Forces brought forth its 26-page final report last week. There were few surprises. The blue-ribbon panel, appointed last January by President Reagan as a last-ditch attempt to find a home for the orphan MX missile, recommended the prompt deployment of 100 MX missiles in existing Minuteman silos and research on silo "hardening." For the long term, the panel proposed the development of an unspecified number of smaller (15-ton) single-warhead missiles with a range, like the MX's, of 8,000 miles...
Imagine a nuclear-tipped missile rising from a silo deep inside the Soviet Union, fixed on a target in the U.S. Almost immediately its fiery exhaust plumes trip warning sensors in satellites orbiting overhead. One of those satellites sends a powerful beam of light, or perhaps even a cascade of subatomic particles, bursting down from the heavens like a Jovian lightning bolt. The beam homes in on the ascending missile and fastens onto its nose cone. Burning through, the beam turns the electronic guidance system into silicon mush, sending the missile wobbling off course and totally immobilizing its nuclear warhead...