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...Soviet Union recedes into history, the threat of global thermonuclear warfare is waning considerably. But we are just beginning to learn some of the secrets of that cold war era when the two superpowers were locked in a state of high alert. This week correspondent Ted Gup advances our understanding greatly with a cover story focusing on the Federal Government's grand plan to preserve post-apocalypse control. As Ted reports, planning went far beyond contingencies to shelter top-level bureaucrats and ensure the survival of the U.S. government. It also included plans to rescue the nation's cultural heritage...
Cover: Photograph of thermonuclear detonation during the Pacific tests in 1958, from Los Alamos National Laboratory...
...nuclear- weapons programs, hired his entire Moscow lab out to Sun Microsystems of Mountain View, Calif., to develop computers and software. Also last week, the U.S. Department of Energy signed a one-year contract with scientists at Moscow's Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy to do research on thermonuclear fusion, a potentially limitless energy source that American physicists have been struggling with for decades. Both deals are tremendous bargains for the U.S. Sun is paying Babayan's 50 or so crack computer scientists just a few hundred dollars a year apiece. And the entire 116-member Kurchatov team is being...
These statistics only exist so that we can compare them to past data. We're supposed to be able to mark our progress and compare our relative success or failure to other relative success or failure to other relative successes and failures. Where do we fit in? Somewhere between thermonuclear destruction and environmental collapse? But let's not worry about our beginnings or our destruction...
After non-military alternative are exhausted, conventional forces will be the primary deterrents. Americans must therefore be willing to lose lives in conventional battles. That, from my perspective, is a more palatable option than killing the whole planet in an all-out thermonuclear...