Word: weaponeering
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...relocation plan have worked? A 1962 study for the Pentagon examined the daytime and nighttime locations of the dozen officials in the line of presidential succession and concluded they were all often well within the kill range of a nuclear assault on the capital. With a 100-megaton weapon, a helicopter anywhere within 50 miles of the White House would have been destroyed in flight, the report noted. There were also unexpected hazards. During one doomsday exercise, Eisenhower was driven by convoy from Washington. As he neared the site, a truck loaded with pigs entered the narrow road. The convoy...
Over the years, Congress has tried to use the denial of MFN -- or what might more accurately be called the conferment of LFN (least-favored-nation) -- status as a stick to make countries behave. It has never worked. Instead the use of trade as a political weapon has almost always backfired. The classic example is also the original one: in the mid-1970s, congressional conservatives passed the famous Jackson-Vanik amendment, which withheld MFN from the U.S.S.R. until the Kremlin agreed to let more Soviet Jews emigrate. Just to show who was boss, Leonid Brezhnev decreased the number of exit...
...formerly fierce rivals into unlikely alliances. The latest: IBM, Toshiba and Siemens will unite to create memory chips 16 times as powerful as any existing today, while Advanced Micro Devices and Fujitsu will work together on flash memory chips, which could one day replace disk drives. Suddenly a major weapon in the U.S.-Japanese trade war looks more like a plowshare than a sword...
Like many a supposed doomsday weapon, the "debt bomb" has turned out to be a dud. That seems to be true in Latin America, anyway -- and that was where countries had piled up by far the greatest amount of the international debt that sparked despair a decade ago. Experts feared that the ious would crush economies in the Third World, while defaults on the loans would bring down big banks and cause a First World financial crisis...
...there was no glass slipper for Seles, she was still the tourney's top story. Late in her quarterfinal match, foes began charging that the formidable Seles' most effective weapon is not her racquet but her racket: the unnerving grunts and shrieks with which she punctuates every stroke. Nathalie Tauziat of France and Navratilova complained that the screaming was so loud they could not hear the ball coming off Seles' racquet...