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...Navy is wedded to battle groups centered on giant aircraft carriers, preferably nuclear propelled. The Administration wants to expand the number of major carriers from 13 now to 15 by 1992. Allowing for replacement of carriers scheduled to retire, that would require starting three new Nimitz-class (93,400 ton) carriers in the next three years...
Hammett turned out a ton of these kinds of stories, before The Maltese Falcon was made into three different movie versions and made him famous. After that, he went out to Hollywood and lived the big life for a while, went broke, ran off to New York, lived in a hotel managed by Nathanial West and wrote The Thin Man--the book that would make him his second fortune. Nick Charles is the hero of The Thin Man, and he and his wife, Nora, are witty, urbane detectives who showed how much the sensibilities of the country had grown since...
Where to put the MX, a 96-ton, six-story-tall behemoth loaded with ten nuclear warheads? That political dilemma has most of official Washington ducking into fallout shelters. Congress last week voted to withhold any additional funding for MX deployment systems until the President decides how and where he wants to install the fearsome rockets. The President will not decide until Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger decides. And Weinberger will not decide until he gets some recommendations from a 15-member expert panel chaired by Charles Townes, a Nobel-prizewinning physicist. When will that be? "Nobody knows," says Pentagon Spokesman...
Fallows uses dozens of examples to illustrate the dangers of trying to build "magic weapons," be they missiles with so many computers they will virtually assure victory or "super" tanks that corner like 40-ton Ferraris. War, he quotes Clausewitz, is both unpredictable and filled with "friction"--everything from bad weather to equipment breakdowns. As a result, planners should stress adaptability. Instead, the "prevailing ethic of modern American defense...is the managerial view of the military," which translates to "the desire to make defense a more straight-forward and efficient business, by applying the disciplines of economics and management...
...gravity, weaken dangerously, and at the same time bones begin to decalcify. Not until the cosmonauts step back on earth do they really experience the consequences of these changes. Then they find themselves overwhelemed by gravity. Every movement becomes a monumental labor, and their bodies seem to weigh a ton...