Word: silo
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...bomber passes through a succession of signs denoting the good life and ways of defending it; a bubble of air from an Aqua-Lung regulator mimics the burst of a nuclear cloud, over which is set an umbrella; the hole in a frosted ring cake suggests a missile silo; a chillingly winsome little blond muffin sits precociously under a hair dryer, whose gleaming cone evokes the nose of an ICBM...
...great bounty of U.S. agriculture continues to be a curse as well as a blessing. As the corn rises speedily, so does a forest of new silos that signals a crop-storage problem of epic proportions. All across the corn belt, from Indiana to Nebraska and Missouri to Minnesota, a binge of bin and silo building is in full swing. Reason: by the end of summer, U.S. farmers and the Department of Agriculture will be buried under more excess wheat, corn, rice and other products than ever before in history. Last week the immensity of the surplus became clear...
...significant because the Reagan Administration has long feared that the Soviets' land-based forces give them the capacity to launch a pre-emptive attack. The Kremlin's 3-to-1 edge in ICBM warheads--which because of their size, speed and accuracy are called "prompt hard-target killers" or "silo busters"--could conceivably wipe out American land-based missiles in a first strike, making it hard for Washington to retaliate. Though many U.S. submarine- and bomber-based warheads would survive, most of these weapons are too slow or inaccurate to be effective against the Soviets' super-hardened military targets...
...first time nuclear "charges," meaning warheads. In the past, the Soviets had agreed to limit only launchers, which allowed their missiles to be loaded up with multiple warheads. The Soviets also alluded to setting a ceiling on the number of land-based missiles. The U.S. considers these big "silo busters" to be the most destabilizing element in the Kremlin's nuclear arsenal, because they give the Soviets the capacity to launch a first strike that could devastate America's land-based missiles...
Enough is enough. Of course foreigners benefit from our technology, just as we benefit from Swiss watches and Japanese cars. But while information can be obtained, a missile silo cannot, as the purposefully vague Reaganese threats would like us to infer. The Administration's spy-hunting hype has passed the bounds of mediocre entertainment to the point where it now threatens the most fundamental freedoms of our more or less open society. With all its shadowy accusations and logical pratfalls, the Administration must not be allowed to dupe the public into fearing Commies when it should fear abridgements...