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...artillery shells and Lance missiles. Now he may not be able to stop it. Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands have told Washington that they want to finish the job by getting rid of the only nukes that would remain: the bombs carried by 1,100 American and 300 NATO aircraft. Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell says the U.S. will keep the arsenal. But privately, senior U.S. officials concede that by the end of next year Europe will probably be a nuclear-free zone...
...interactive multimedia will succeed, at least at some level, ! because for certain purposes it makes good sense. In the business world, it is already being embraced as a tool to train workers in such complex skills as aircraft maintenance and computer repair. But multimedia still lacks what computer companies call the "killer application," a program like the electronic spreadsheet or the word processor that is so compelling that consumers will buy a new device just to run it. As Marshall McLuhan pointed out, every new medium takes its content from its predecessor: early films were simply recorded stage plays...
Knowles compares his work to that of a bombing mission. "If your bombers are being shot down, you can either develop higher flying bombers or you can knock out the anti-aircraft guns and use the old bombers," says Knowles. By rendering the enzyme inoperable, Knowles effectively knocked out the "anti-aircraft guns...
...crucial days after the gulf war, when the Shi'ite south and the Kurdish north were in revolt, Saddam was hanging by a thread. The Administration could easily have tipped the balance against him. It chose not to. It stayed its hand -- muted its threats and grounded its aircraft -- in the name of stability and the unity of the Iraqi state...
TACTICAL WEAPONS Nuclear artillery shells and warheads for short-range missiles in both Europe and Asia will simply be destroyed, period. But aircraft will continue to carry nuclear bombs to maintain a deterrent against a ground invasion of U.S. allies. At sea, submarines will continue to carry MIRVed ballistic missiles, which are considered strategic weapons. But nuclear SLCMs (sea-launched cruise missiles) will be taken off attack subs and surface ships, and nuclear bombs will be removed from aircraft carriers, to be stored for possible redeployment. Nonetheless, this action unilaterally satisfies a long-standing Soviet demand that naval forces...