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...launch of the missile with its dummy warhead went perfectly, and officials in Washington and abroad, who had been getting edgy about the misadventures of Pershing II, breathed easier. The Army has been rushing to ready the intermediate-range missile, nine of which are slated to be deployed in West Germany by December 1983, a year earlier than originally planned, as the centerpiece of the NATO arms buildup. Designed to fly 1,000 miles in six to eight minutes, the Pershing II will be the first nuclear weapon based in Western Europe capable of striking with accuracy deep inside...
Like the other two companies discussed by the Harvard Corporation this year, G.E. has ties to the Department of Defense but does most of its contracting for nuclear projects through the Department of Energy (DOE). With five major laboratories and 13 production-testing plants nation-wide, the DOE supervises warhead and material production, disposal of nuclear waste from defense activities, and a good portion of nuclear research and development...
...started throwing off burning fragments. The missile, 34½ ft. long and 40 in. in diameter, was already disintegrating when an Air Force officer pushed the emergency button to detonate the small explosive charges packed on board. The nose cone, which fell into the Atlantic, carried no nuclear warhead. At week's end officials were still trying to determine what caused the failure; preliminary blame was placed on a flaw in the first-stage rocket motor...
...enemy jet. However, many of the downed MiGs were apparently hit by the latest model of the Sidewinder missile, which is being used effectively by British Sea Harriers in the Falkland Islands. The weapon adjusts its aim in flight with an extremely sensitive infrared homing system that guides the warhead toward the enemy jet at 1,650 m.p.h., faster than 95% of the planes in the Syrian air force. The new Sidewinders are so sensitive that they can lock in on the heat created by air friction on a jet's surface. The Israeli Sidewinders, like most...
...missile armed with a one-megaton nuclear warhead, probably launched from a Soviet submarine cruising in the North Atlantic, detonates near ground level at the Science Center. Within seconds, Memorial Hall and the Yard disappear into a crater more than 200 feet deep. The third largest library in the world is flattened, its collection buried under a thick crust of radioactive soil thrown up from the blast's hole. Little is left standing between the Quad and the Charles River...