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...Saddam Hussein's stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons. HPMs fry the sophisticated computers and electronic gear necessary to produce, protect, store and deliver such agents. The powerful electromagnetic pulses can travel into deeply buried bunkers through ventilation shafts, plumbing and antennas. But unlike conventional explosives, they won't spew deadly agents into the air, where they could poison Iraqi civilians or advancing U.S. troops...
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...ghosts. There?s a smooth creepiness at work here, and it?s always a treat to see Leslie go mad on screen, but the picture?s function in this series is mainly to provide a comparison between the relatively reserved, calculated product of today and the magnificently unsettling movie spew of colonial days...
President Bush warned last week that any Iraqi troops who followed orders to use weapons of mass destruction would be "pursued and punished." But the Pentagon is not counting on deterrence alone. Bombing chemical and biological sites would be dicey, however, since blasted facilities could spew poisons hundreds of miles downwind, potentially over U.S. troops or Iraqi civilians. So the U.S. military is weighing the wisdom of attacking deeply buried facilities with "agent defeat" weapons designed to produce a heat so intense it kills the spores in biological weapons and breaks down the poisons in chemical weapons. This would keep...
...hard to imagine a more inhospitable place on earth than the hydrothermal vents that pepper the ocean floor. These cracks in the sea bottom spew water superheated by rising magma to as high as 750[degrees]F and contaminated with toxic substances such as hydrogen sulfide, cadmium, arsenic and lead. Yet despite these lethal conditions, life not only survives but thrives in the form of colonies of microbes that feed on poison and multiply in temperatures that could hard-boil...