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Finally, there is the recently publicized proposal of a former director of the National Security Agency, Adm. Noel Gayler: massive cuts in each side's arsenal without the distraction of classification and verifiability. Gayler suggests that each side simply junk an arbitrary number of warhead of its own choice--whether land-based missile warheads, bombs, or artillery shells--under the supervision of a special international commission. Each side would naturally turn in its most vulnerable weapons, retaining its best deterrent. After a few trial runs with tiny numbers of the uniquely identifiable commodities, larger amounts could be turned...
Like the other two companies discussed by the Harvard Corporation this year. G.I. 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 nationwide, the DOE supervises warhead and materials production, disposal of nuclear waste from defense activities, and a good portion of nuclear research and development...
...pilots fired one Exocet each and then wheeled away without waiting to see the results. One missile went wide of the mark. The other hit the Sheffield square amidships, penetrating all the way into the destroyer's highly electronic fire-control room before its 360-lb. warhead exploded, igniting, among other things, the remainder of the missile's volatile propellant. The effect, recalled the ship's captain, James Salt, 42, was "devastating...
...their absolute numbers. From Greenville, S.C., to Clackamas County, Ore., local officials issued declarations of support. In 200 of the 650 towns and cities that held Ground Zero observances, markers were installed, each signifying the center of a 12-sq.-rrfi. circle of total destruction that a one-megaton warhead would wreak. Around the Ground Zero spot in Billings, Mont., a mime group per, formed an antiwar piece; in neighboring North Dakota, 600 people in Grand Forks applauded a speaker's suggestion that the Government dismantle one of the state's 300 Minuteman missiles as a symbolic peacemaking...
...whoever might be said to have that elusive lead? Because Reagan apparently has in mind a ghastly scenario that is now possible, at least in theory. It goes this way: improvements in missile accuracy now make it conceivable that the U.S.S.R., by launching a mere 200 of its multiple-warhead missiles, could destroy nearly all the 1,052 U.S. land-based missiles in their silos. The U.S. would then not be able to take out the remaining Soviet missiles, especially since submarine-launched missiles are not as accurate as those fired from land. The U.S. could still incinerate the U.S.S.R...