Word: thompson
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...This sudden fear of Chinese nukes really strikes me as ridiculous to the point of being surreal," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "They've had 23 nukes pointed at us all along. Is that not enough to do the job? This is a great political issue for Republicans, but if you peel away the rhetoric, not a thing has changed in terms of tactical advantage...
...current furor has any useful purpose, it might be to remind U.S. weaponry hawks that very little of the feverish work that goes on in Los Alamos these days is actually improving America's ability to win a war. "I liken it to teenagers working on their cars," says Thompson. "It's a matter of pride to have a better, faster car with a souped-up engine that puts all your friends' to shame. But you can still get to the 7-11 in a Pacer." The U.S., you'll recall, already went to the 7-11 -- 54 years...
...this point, we're in a race with ourselves," says Thompson. "China has never desired to have a state-of-the-art nuclear arsenal -- otherwise they wouldn't be so far behind everybody else." Maybe now, says Thompson, they've caught up by a few years -- in 2002, they'll be in the 1970s, and in another decade or two they'll be where the U.S. is today. He's got a worst-case scenario, too: "The Chinese put a nuclear missile in a freighter, sail it up the Potomac, and blow it up. Who's going to care whether...
...informal ceremony held Monday afternoon in the Barker Center's Thompson Room, Assistant Professor of English and American Literature and Language Ann Pellegrini '86 received the first annual Faculty Ally Award from the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance (BGLTSA...
...question here is whether the FBI presented the Justice Department with sufficient evidence to justify a wiretap," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "If Justice turned a blind eye for political reasons, then Reno should be prosecuted. But rather than comparing it with the Rosenbergs, some people are calling this nuclear espionage's Richard Jewell case -- asking why, if Wen Ho Lee is so bad, we don't have enough to arrest the guy." Months of leaks from the Cox committee's classified report alleging nuclear negligence have prepared Washington to expect a damning indictment of the Clinton administration...