Word: versions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minuteman version, with a range of 7,500 miles, carries up to three warheads (each under one megaton) and some chaff that is released to confuse enemy anti-ballistic missile radar. Present plans call for deployment of 500 MIRVed Minuteman Ill's, in addition to 500 Minuteman II's with single warheads. All would be housed in 90-ft.-deep silos, located at least seven miles apart to prevent an enemy warhead from destroying two sites...
...Poseidon version can carry up to twelve warheads and has a 2,900-mile range. The Poseidon MIRVs are thus of the "low kiloton" type, designed to be used against cities, while the Minuteman Ill's might be used to hit the adversary's iCBMs in hardened silos. The Navy has begun to refit two of its Polaris submarines to handle Poseidons. According to present plans, 496 of the 656 missiles now aboard submarines will carry MIRVs...
...hand could kill him in 30 seconds. Sarin has been improved since then. The Army also stocks mustard gas, a blistering agent that burns the skin and was widely used in World War I, plus such familiar riot-control agents as vomit gases, tear gas and its stronger version, CS. Also kept on hand for experimentation are small quantities of incapacitating gases designed to interfere temporarily with mental processes but not to kill...
...Soviets bent and shuffled in order to get as many signatures as possible on the dotted line. Moscow had once aimed to use the conference to read the Chinese out of the Communist movement. No such luck: all direct mention of the Chinese was knocked out of the final version. The Kremlin had also wanted to gain the parties' approval for the doctrine of limited sovereignty, by which the Soviet regime justifies the invasion of Czechoslovakia. Russia settled for a watered-down defense of "proletarian internationalism," qualified by strong declarations of independence for all parties...
...extended ballets with strong dramatic substance. Opening the company's three-week New York visit was one of his best, an evening-long interpretation of Pushkin's intensely romantic verse-drama Eugene Onegin. Two nights later, the company presented an even more stunning tour deforce, a balletic version of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. Both were lavishly mounted, eye-filling pieces. Onegin uses a score by Music Director Kurt-Heinz Stolze based on short pieces by Tchaikovsky. The work moves quickly and assuredly through Pushkin's tale of romance and betrayal, never assuming the luxury...