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...warheads, believed to be in the one-megaton range, is in the form of high-energy X rays. To extend the lethal range of these rays, which are quickly absorbed or attenuated when traveling through air, the ABM warhead will be carried high above the atmosphere by the new Spartan missile and exploded in space in the vicinity of incoming ICBMs...
Because ABM-produced X rays and neutrons could sweep such large segments of the skies clear of threatening ICBMs, defense planners believe a relatively small number of Spartan missile batteries-costing a total of $4 billion-could defend the entire continental U.S. against the kind of primitive missile attack that China may well be able to launch by the mid-1970s. They could also provide protection against a few Soviet ICBMs that might be launched accidentally...
...even the installation of many Spartan batteries-backed up by smaller and faster Sprint missiles for short-range interception of ICBMs that penetrate the X-ray curtain-would not provide sufficient protection against a determined and massive attack by the Soviet Union. Using shielding, decoys, multiple and maneuverable warheads and radar-jamming chaff or nuclear explosions, the Russians could confuse and overwhelm U.S. defenses-just as the U.S. could overcome theirs...
...Profession. King Paul felt that he had not had sufficient training for his duties; when his son Constantine was born in 1940, he spoke of preparing him for the specialized profession of "kingship." When he was six, young "Tino," as the family called him, was sent off to a spartan private school. He later spent time at each of the nation's three military academies and tasted the medicine of army discipline. "I bitterly cursed it at the time," he said later on, "but you're grateful for it all." At home, Constantine got more royal treatment, was even allowed...
...colonial house in the St. Louis suburb of Ladue, he reads papers and reaches decisions. At the plant, amid the wail of Phantoms taking off to fly directly to Viet Nam (with the help of in-flight refueling and an Okinawa stop), he operates out of a spacious but spartan corner office, with a scuffed carpet and hand-me-down, imitation-leather chairs...