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...With the exception of Sri Lanka, literacy rates are 50 percent or less," said Ahmad, adding that family planning education "affects all of the Third World...

Author: By Kelly T. Yee, | Title: SAA Forum Addresses Gender Issues | 10/9/1991 | See Source »

...then getting all of them to work. Even then, SDI could be easily thwarted. "Brilliant pebbles" might be able to bring down Soviet strategic missiles flying against the dark of space, but would have trouble tracking a low-flying missile against a warm, crowded earth--the very weapons Third World countries would use. The development of SDI technology also requires a computer the size of a cigarette pack, but with the power of a Cray supercomputer. Supposedly, all this will cost less than $1 million for each unit...

Author: By Matthew L. Jones, | Title: No Weapons in Space | 10/8/1991 | See Source »

...worst case scenario never occurred. The superpowers sublimated their nuclear tensions into conventional battles between third-world puppet governments and rebel groups...

Author: By Mark N. Templeton, | Title: The Earth's Nuclear Future | 10/8/1991 | See Source »

With the decline of tensions in Europe, it is now third-world dictators and terrorist groups who are greater threats to stability than the superpowers. Future crises are more likely to resemble Iraq 1991 than Cuba...

Author: By Mark N. Templeton, | Title: The Earth's Nuclear Future | 10/8/1991 | See Source »

Since terrorists and third-world dictators are now more likely than superpowers to threaten use of nuclear weapons, it makes sense to develop an anti-ballistic missile defense system...

Author: By Mark N. Templeton, | Title: The Earth's Nuclear Future | 10/8/1991 | See Source »

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