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Reinstituting the draft would do more to diminish the danger of nuclear war than the MX supermissile and B-1 bomber programs combined. No one else dares to say it. I understand, of course, that risking a nuclear doomsday is preferable to losing the votes of the 18-year-olds...
...vulnerable to a Soviet strike. The committee made $1.1 billion more in cuts before sending the fiscal 1983 weapons budget of $180.2 billion to the Senate floor. There it may face even rougher treatment as critics attempt to cut $11.3 billion in funds slated for the B-l strategic bomber and two nuclear aircraft carriers. The budget trimmers got some moral support from Gerald Ford, who said last week that it was "hogwash" to think that U.S. security would be endangered by a slowdown in weapons procurement. Said he: "The Soviet Union isn't going to attack...
...compared with a weapons scheme described in this month's American Heritage magazine. Just after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, a Pennsylvania dental surgeon named Lytle S. Adams hit upon the idea of arming bats with tiny incendiary bombs and letting them loose over Japan. The bomber bats would supposedly seek refuge in the eaves of Japanese houses, where their deadly cargoes-equipped with a 15-hr, timer-would explode and set off fires...
...ahead," snaps the copilot of the B-17 in a voice that sounds like John Wayne's. Then the plane's bombardier gives an order in a slow Southern drawl. Snips from a grainy World War II movie? Not at all. This is part of B-17 Bomber, a home video game that Mattel will start selling this summer...
...aggression, thereby reducing U.S. reli ance on a nuclear last resort. A case can be made that the politically difficult decision of reinstituting the draft would do more to strengthen American defense posture?and hence to diminish the danger of war?than the MX supermissile and the B-l bomber programs combined...