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...overthrow of the Shah of Iran, Fahd gave the Kingdom's ultra conservative Islamic establishment the green light to promote an ever rigid Wahhabi form of Islam so long as it continued to recognize the legitimacy of the House of Saud as Saudi Arabia's political leadership. After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, he worked with the U.S. government to encourage a jihad against the Red Army. During Fahd's reign, the country imposed a stricter dress code for women, continued to ban women from driving and spent billions exporting Wahhabi teachings and building mosques throughout the Islamic...
...payload. In actual use, the shuttle fleet has averaged five flights a year; this year flights were to be cut back to four. The maximum payload is almost never carried. Yet to accommodate the highly unrealistic initial goals, engineers made the shuttle huge and expensive. The Soviet space program also built a shuttle, called Buran, with almost exactly the same dimensions and capacities as its American counterpart. Buran flew to orbit once and was canceled, as it was ridiculously expensive and impractical...
...enough radioactive material to make more than a few bombs. It was even likely, they said, that Hiroshima was a one-off stunt that could not be repeated. (This deprecation of the magnitude of the U.S. Bomb program suggests how ineffective a demonstration would have been.) Only after the Soviet declaration of war against Japan on Aug. 8 and the second nuclear attack on Nagasaki on Aug. 9 did Emperor Hirohito, in an exceedingly rare display of direct political command, overrule some of his own military leaders, who advocated an apocalyptic fight to the finish. Citing the unprecedented destructive power...
...produce secretly. Nuclear-radiation leaks, even in minute quantities, can be detected. But making a nuclear bomb isn't impossible. Under the apartheid regime--at a time when it was subject to international trade sanctions--South Africa managed to build six of them. (Until the breakup of the Soviet Union, South Africa was the only nation to willingly and verifiably give up its entire nuclear arsenal.) Leaving aside North Korea's claims that it possesses the Bomb, there are already seven declared nuclear powers--the U.S., Russia, Britain, France, China, India and Pakistan--with Israel an undeclared member...
...Islamabad's permission to question him.) Meanwhile, Nunn maintains that the U.S. has underfunded the program that he and Senator Richard Lugar established in 1991 to help Russia secure its inventory of tactical nuclear weapons, which many fear has not been under close control since the demise of the Soviet Union. "These are weapons that could be transported by one person, put in the back of a truck and blow up a large part of a city," Nunn said recently. He continued, "We don't know how many weapons the Russians have or where they're located. We hope they...