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...officers has been appalling. Like the old woman, felled by a heart attack, who had been partially eaten by her cats before her neighbors noticed the smell. Like the man who had tied a shotgun to his head, stuck the barrel in his mouth, and pulled the trigger...
...stems from little appreciated facts recently made clear in two New Yorker articles dealing with nuclear strategy. The articles discussed American and Russian war-fighting plans, and concluded that given the vulnerability of command and control systems to preemptive nuclear attack both sides have put reliance on a hair-trigger strategy...
...Reagan decides to proceed with the Star Wars system, he just might be doing us all a favor should one day Russia and the United States find themselves deep in crisis. It's not pleasant to think that force stand on a hair-trigger, but in an age of precision technology, when one side can wipe out the other's command systems in a matter of minutes, that's just reality. Anything that minutes this reality less painful on the "day of reckoning" should be welcomed
...them, will be able to confront Nakasone with the dire prospect of U.S. retaliation if Japan fails to become a fairer trading partner. "A shotgun behind the door" was the way House Majority Leader Jim Wright of Texas described the Senate bill. Even if Reagan does not pull the trigger, he will surely have Nakasone's undivided attention...
...truck driver, felt a gun in his back as he drew cash from an automatic banking machine early on Jan. 30. He instinctively wheeled around, knocked the gunman down, grabbed his pistol, put it to the prone man's head and pulled the trigger several times. The gun would not fire. "I wasn't going to stand there and let him kill me without doing anything," Davis explained. In another New York subway clash, Andrew Frederick, 25, saw two men trying to steal candy from an underground newsstand and intervened. When they turned on him, he pulled out a pocketknife...