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...critical but irresolvable uncertainties inherent in the subject of nuclear war cut two ways. They bedevil the Joint Chiefs of Staff as they design "targeting options" and President Reagan as he seeks to make credible the longstanding American threat of using nuclear weapons first to retaliate against a Soviet tank attack on Western Europe. But those uncertainties also complicate the arguments of people like Schell, who maintain that nuclear weaponry, because it threatens total destruction, is devoid of military or political utility. Whether one believes that nuclear arsenals constitute an indispensable part of our national defense or that they constitute...
...during Brezhnev's absence. Speculation that Andrei Kirilenko, 75, a longtime favorite for the succession, had lost a power struggle to Brezhnev Protégé Konstantin Chernenko, 70, was strengthened last week when Kirilenko's name was missing from an obituary for a World War II tank commander signed by other Kremlin leaders. A senior West German official gave Brezhnev "a few more months," but then warned: "When I read our information, I am always amazed at how little we know for certain about the inner workings of the leadership of the world's second most...
...taco and lemonade stand. The tacos here were cheap and tasty, but I have never been able to buy lemonade on the street since I saw Harpo Marx (in Duck Soup) hop into a vendor's tank of lemonade and jog in place until the police came...
...earlier plays, Absent Friends. There is nothing out-of-the-suitcase about Way Upstream, however: the Alley production is perhaps as ambitious a staging as has ever been attempted by a regional theater. The playwright's River Orb has been regurgitated into a 20,000-gal. tank of water; a 24-ft. cabin cruiser has been assembled inside; and a huge sprinkler system has been installed to re-create a summer downpour. Ayckbourn has directed, as he did in Scarborough, and his players move as effortlessly as their roles-and their wayward craft-will allow...
...elemental toolmaking level. Indeed, one can browse through this book as if it were an unimaginably well-stocked hardware store. Something in Chobham, the latest composite armor? Your enemy will probably have it too, so better pick up a "high explosive squash head" (HESH), which flattens against a tank before it explodes, sending out a shock wave that breaks up machinery and men. The list goes on; arrays of missiles, electronic and chemical nasties sweep over the reader in waves of gadget lust...