Word: coding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower's NATO speech this week was drafted to offer a code within which NATO can live-and at the same time to present a challenge that NATO must meet if it hopes to live. Its gist...
...suspense this situation generates is impressive. Beaten, starved, baked in a sheet-iron oven-how can the colonel possibly hold out? But he does. Backed by bayonets, stiffened by his code-how can Saito possibly give in? But he does. The British troops so successfully sabotage the bridge they are supposed to build that Saito is forced to ask the colonel's help, and to capitulate to his terms...
...Originally called by the code name "Window," it was first used by the British in a big raid on Hamburg, July 24, 1943, when it completely confused the Germans' radars and paralyzed their air defense...
...Code & Flares. All such tricks and more have long been familiar to every military nation, and many cycles of subtlety have been built upon them. Modern radars change their frequencies quickly and also change the length and shape of the pulses they send out. This amounts to a sort of code that the enemy must break, and often he has no time to do it. If he is attacked by a radar-guided missile, he may have only a few seconds to mimic its voice and prompt it to swerve aside into empty...
When it looks as if a potential enemy has developed quick, automatic devices for breaking a radar's code, more complicated electronic codes must be devised. Some missiles have abandoned radar in favor of heat-sensitive eyes that guide them to the hot tail pipes of an enemy airplane. One answer to this dodge is to release decoys with powerful flares to attract the missile...