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...then Star Wars almost certainly cannot work. Former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger characterizes the headier versions of a Star Wars plan as "half Buck Rogers, half P.T. Barnum," and even the most ardent proponents generally con- cede that no technology now known or foreseeable could be guaranteed to destroy every warhead the Soviets could launch. Some percentage would always get through, causing death and devastation beyond the mind...
...basic idea of Star Wars is a "layered" defense that would attack the warheads throughout their flight, destroying more at each stage. No more than, say, 70% might be wiped out during any one phase, but in the end perhaps only 10% or less of the warheads launched would explode on or over their targets. That would cause mass loss of life, but could leave most U.S. retaliatory capacity intact. Boost-phase interception, however, is generally considered to be the key to an even partially effective defense. That is when the enemy projectiles are easiest to find: the intense heat...
...good cooperation over the past several years in attempting to destroy the production of the narcotics traffickers. Mexico provides the U.S. with about 38% of the heroin we receive. But as our own forces have grown in efficiency, the size and power (of the traffickers') organizations have also grown...
...with a new, silent propulsion system. In a message to his superior in Moscow, Ramius challenges the whole Soviet navy to catch him. He then takes off for Norfolk, together with a group of equally disaffected officers and an unsuspecting crew. Moscow dispatches 58 attack submarines to hunt and destroy the rogue boat before its secrets can fall into U.S. hands...
...potential disobedience of orders. In his zeal to defend the defecting Red October from an Alfa-class Soviet hunter, the commander of a U.S. attack sub considers torpedoing the Alfa on his own authority. Another American officer vows that if the Soviets fire at Red October, then he will destroy the hunter, "and rules of engagement be damned...