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...break the monotony, scientists took aboard a variety of stuffed animals, including a seal, cat and penguin, and warmed up snacks of pizza, empanadas, popcorn and hamburgers in the microwave oven. Cabin temperature was kept cool to avoid overheating the high-tech instrumentation. Says Atmospheric Physicist Geoffrey Toon, of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.: "If you tried to sleep during your off hours, usually you froze...
...students they definitely have provedthemselves and paid their dues. In addition toOn Thin Ice, Ronis calculates he hasdirected or acted in 45 shows. Moore puts hispersonal figure in the low thirties...
Politicians and pundits debated the value of a summit conference at a time when East-West relations are mostly chilly. "It would serve to clear the air and to have a return to normalcy," said Dimitri Simes of Washington's Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Malcolm Toon, who served as U.S. Ambassador to Moscow in the Carter Administration, disagreed vigorously. "I happen to feel summits aren't a very useful way of doing serious diplomatic or political business," he said. "It makes no sense for a U.S. President and a Soviet General Secretary to meet just in order...
Unlike Andropov, who never traveled to a country that was not under Communist control, Chernenko is not unknown in the West. Still, a number of Westerners who have met him are unimpressed. "He is a dullard," says Malcolm Toon, the tart-tongued former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, who met Chernenko at the SALT II talks in Vienna in 1979. Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Carter Administration's National Security Adviser, remembers Chernenko as "a very cautious bureaucrat, very deferential to Brezhnev, not forceful, not dynamic." The fact that Chernenko was "the least competent, the least likely to innovate [of the contenders]," Brzezinski...
...Turco, O.B. Toon, T.P. Ackerman, J.B. Pollack and Carl Sagan in a study entitled "Nuclear Winter Global Consequences of Multiple Nuclear Explosions" (and referred to as TTAPS after the authors names), examine a previously ignored effect of nuclear detonations: the creation of dust and soot that can float in the middle and upper atmosphere for years. Isolated detonations the only kind we have witnessed in our experience with nuclear weapons to date do not generate enough dust and soot to create any long term atmospheric changes. But any nuclear war between the superpowers is likely to involve thousands of warheads...