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...study examined "nuclear decapitation," or the possibility that a surprise Soviet missile strike could wipe out the U.S. strategic-command system and prevent the President from ordering a retaliatory attack. Said one senior U.S. military officer: "This is the single most dangerous document I have ever seen." The Pentagon dispatched an official with a top security clearance to round up copies and destroy them in a high-security incinerator in the offices of the Joint Chiefs...
However, the master plan that Casey delivered to the Senate last week (it goes to the House Intelligence Committee this week) may prompt a far more detailed examination of the CIA's plans than ever. Durenberger has been pushing for such a document ever since he became head of the committee, on the ground that legislators cannot properly assess any specific CIA budget request unless they can see how it fits into a set of national intelligence priorities --assumi ng that one exists. As far as anyone knows, none did until last week. The closest thing was a paper called...
...opening words of the document sounded like a declaration of war: "The people have spoken. Or tried to. Despite the obstacles thrown in the way of their speaking freely, we the bishops believe what they attempted to say is clear enough. In our considered judgment, the polls were unparalleled in the fraudulence of their conduct...
...rings, already suspect, were spotlighted early in the week when the Times printed details of memos leaked by an unnamed solid-fuel rocket expert. One document, written last July by Richard Cook, an agency budget analyst, noted that booster O rings had shown signs of charring on previous missions and could lead to a "catastrophic" situation...
Mulloy's statement seemed at odds with a 1982 NASA report. The document concluded that because of shifting motions in the boosters at launch, the secondary O rings might not seat properly. But NASA decided that the shuttle could keep flying without an assured backup, knowing that the consequences of failure, in the agency's own words, could be "loss of mission, vehicle and crew...