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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...critics that the movement is ultimately a pacifist one that plays into the hands of the Soviets. They point out that the freeze proposal calls for verification. Critics, however, respond by claiming that a freeze on "testing, production and further deployment" of nuclear weapons cannot be verified without on-site inspection, which Moscow has always resisted. Beyond that, a President pushed into negotiations with Moscow by the force of a populist movement, even in the name of a morally just cause, would be at an enormous disadvantage in trying to deal with leaders of a totalitarian society who knew...
...alert code would be instantly relayed by telephone, ultrahigh-frequency radio or teletype to the crews manning the 1,052 Titan and Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles in underground silos scattered across the Great Plains. At each launch site, the crew commander and his deputy would decode the incoming message separately, then make sure that the two versions matched. The two officers would open two combination locks to a safe; neither has the combination to both locks. If the sealed authenticator inside the safe matches the incoming message, the officers would take out separate firing keys and go to consoles about...
Once again, the argument cannot be proved one way or the other; the doubts cannot be dissolved; everyone is guessing. President Reagan, General Jones, the Air Force commander of an ICBM site, the pilot of a B-52, the skipper of a missile-launching sub?they all know what is supposed to happen when the President authorizes TANGO ECHO BRAVO ROMEO NOVEMBER; but no one knows what will happen next, or after that...
...pendant became the hare of the dogged, touching off an orgy of literary and literal digging. The Druid ruins at Stonehenge, a popular site for rabbit sleuths, were overrun by spades-people. For 18 months Thomas pondered the problem, buying three copies of Masquerade and throwing two away when his wife complained of puzzle-neglect. He made a breakthrough by linking the inscription under one picture, "One of Six to Eight," to Catherine of Aragon, the first of Henry VIII's six wives. Thomas also divined another key clue: a pictorial reference to the vernal equinox indicating an object...
...less important scientifically, both landers managed to drill a few centimeters into the Venusian surface, scoop up some rock and analyze its chemistry. The conclusion: the material at both sites was basalt, fire-formed rock typically found in lava flows on earth. Indeed, based on its telltale traces of potassium, the material at Venera 14's site seemed uncannily like rocks that come out of the earth at the volcanically active mid-ocean ridges...