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these discoveries in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists during
1991 and 1992.
26 Robert W. Chandler, “Counterforce: Locating and Destroying
Weapons of Mass Destruction,” INSS Occasional Paper 21,
August 1998, pp 24-25; Steve Fetter, et. al., “Detecting
Nuclear Warheads,” Science and Global Security, 1 (1990), pp
225-302.
27 Zachary M. Koenig, et. al., “Wide-Area Nuclear Detection for
Monitoring and Tracking Nuclear-Weapon Material,” Arms
Control and Nonproliferation Technologies, Third Quarter,
1994, pp 27-28.
28 One study calls for “thermoflux” weapons that generate
intense heat for a long duration to destroy WMD, while also
limiting the danger of releasing deadly elements. US Air Force,
New World Vistas: Air and Space in the 21st Century.
Munitions Volume (Washington: Department of the Air Force,
1996), p 31, and “USA Planning Warhead to Hit CB
Weapons,” JDW, 24 March 1999, p 6.
29 Daniel Gouré and Christopher Szara, Air and Space Power in
the New Millennium (Washington: CSIS, 1997), p 101; Craig
Covault, “Military Space Dominates Air Strikes,” AWST, 29
March 1999, pp 31-33.
30 Thomas G. Behling and Kenneth McGruther, “Satellite
Reconnaissance of the Future,” Joint Force Quarterly, 18
(Spring 1999), p 24.
31 These statistics are from Ted Nicholas and Rita Rossi, U.S.
Weapon Systems Costs, 1998. Eighteenth Edition (Fountain
Valley, CA: Data Search Associates, 1998).
32 IISS, The Military Balance, 1998/99 (London: Oxford University
Press, 1998). Because the Chinese and Russian air arms are
aging, US air dominance is even more pronounced than the
numbers would indicate.
33 Beale, pp 25, 29 and 32.
34 Quoted in Julian Corbett, Some Principles of Maritime
Strategy (London: Longmans, Green, 1911), p 55.
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