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...bomb that could fit into a suitcase, says Taylor, would probably be beyond the capabilities of military designers outside the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The smallest nuclear device developed by the U.S. (SADM). Deployed since 1964, it can be carried by one man and is designed to destroy dams, bridges and similar installations. According to William Arkin, a defense specialist with the Institute for Policy Studies, a private Washington-based research organization, the U.S. has about 400 of these devices in Europe, South Korea, Guam and the U.S. Until recently, the military also produced a 400-lb. nuclear device...
...majority made clear that "no author may copyright facts or ideas." Protection is limited to "those aspects of the work . . . that display the < stamp of the author's originality." The Nation's view that using Ford's words was "essential to reporting the news story," said O'Connor, would "destroy any expectation of copyright protection in the work of a public figure...
...same time, however, President Raul Alfonsin's determination to come to grips with the past has confronted him with a major dilemma: he must honor his commitment to democracy and a citizenry's clamoring for justice by punishing the guilty among the soldiers, yet he cannot afford either to destroy or to alienate the 60,000-strong career military...
Oddly, on the weapons front the most recent research development may actually be something of an embarrassment to the Administration. Reagan has laid great stress on developing a "nonnuclear" defense, but the strongest laser beams that might eventually be used to destroy missiles are X-ray laser beams -- and they are produced by detonating atom bombs. In underground tests of an atomic device in Nevada, researchers are said to have considerably increased the brightness of X-ray laser beams, which would greatly extend their potential missile-killing range. Research into X-ray laser beams at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory...
...seem determined to abduct many more in contested municipalities where, according to the rebels, there is a "duality of power" between government and guerrillas. The rebels specifically link their campaign to the national guard's alleged capture of two women guerrillas, but the real aim seems to be to destroy local government structures...