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...topic, said a Ramparts editor, quickly ballooned from "a giggle to a cause." died. bruce bolt, 75, pioneer in engineering seismology, which uses earth science to influence structural engineering; in Oakland, California. By using data from sensors along fault lines, records of old quakes and analysis of underground rock formations, he explained why certain spots in active seismic areas, including those far away from the epicenter, are hit harder than others. His work influenced legislation in California, and he was consulted on construction projects from Egypt to Alaska. died. al held, 76, abstract painter and Yale University professor known...
DIED. BRUCE BOLT, 75, pioneer in engineering seismology, which uses earth science to influence structural engineering; in Oakland, Calif. By using data from sensors along fault lines, records of old quakes and analysis of underground rock formations, he explained why certain spots in active seismic areas, including some far from the epicenter, are hit harder than others. His work influenced legislation in California, and he was consulted on construction projects from Egypt to Alaska...
...innocent. The Brazilian had been wearing an unusually heavy coat for summer when plainclothes cops chased him onto a train and revealed previously secret "shoot to kill" guidelines for dealing with suicide bombers. The incident occurred the day after four bombs went off almost simultaneously on Underground trains and a bus in a chilling echo of the blasts that killed 56 people two weeks ago. But this time only the detonators blew up. One theory is that the bombs came from the same batch of home-brewed explosive used on July 7, which can degrade quickly...
...established powers to restart the arms race. The Bush Administration is determined not just to modernize its aging arsenal but also to develop a new type of bomb, the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator--known as the "bunker buster"--which would be used to blast targets buried deep underground. Both North Korea and Iran are believed to have buried clandestine nuclear facilities. But John Deutch, Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Clinton Administration, argues that by talking of a new type of bomb, the Administration is undercutting its own efforts to persuade others to stay out of the nuclear game. Nunn...
...Bomb gives one bragging rights. Pakistan, for example, is intensely proud of its nuclear arsenal: displayed in every large city is a fiber-glass model of the Chagi Hills, where the 1998 tests took place. Every Pakistani remembers seeing TV films of the hills' shuddering at the jolt from underground, like a camel shaking off a layer of dust. Russia, which has pledged to update its nuclear arsenal, knows that its bombs are what maintain its pretensions to be a great power. Neither Britain nor France will give up its nuclear weapons, at least partly because if either...