JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 11:45 AM Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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Soviet Fall-Out Cloud Over the East
October 30, 1961, Monday
Page 19, 149 words
The 200-mile-wide fall-out cloud from the Soviet Union's latest nuclear explosions continued generally eastward across the United States yesterday. It covered the northern part of New York State, and parts of New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine and extended into the Atlantic.
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Fifty Megatons of Terror
October 31, 1961, Tuesday
Section: food fashions family furnishings, Page 30, 385 words
The explosion on Premier Khrushchev's orders of a super monster of fifty megatons -- the equivalent of fifty million tons of TNT -- has, in the words of Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson, "taken the world a great leap backward toward anarchy and disaster."
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John F. Kennedy
XXXV President of the United States: 1961 - 1963
442 - White House Statement Announcing the Explosion by the U.S.S.R. of a 50-Megaton Bomb
October 30, 1961
AT THREE THIRTY this morning, the Soviet Union detonated a very large nuclear device. Preliminary evidence indicates that its magnitude is on the order of 50 megatons. The explosion took place in the atmosphere. It will produce more radioactive fallout than any previous explosion.
The Soviet explosion was a political rather than a military act. The device exploded does not add in effectiveness against military targets to nuclear weapons now available both to the Soviet Union and the United States. It does not affect the basic balance of nuclear power. Any such weapon would be primarily a mass killer of people in war-and the testing of this device primarily an incitement to fright and panic in the cold war.
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Wave of Soviet Blast Detected Around World
Special to The New York Times.
October 31, 1961, Tuesday
Page 15, 143 words
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 -- Today's nuclear explosion set off by the Soviet Union generated a pressure wave detected around the world.
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Study: Megaquake looms over Seattle
Researchers say fault goes deeper than thought and heads toward city
By Michael Reilly
DiscoveryNews
updated 2 hours, 27 minutes ago
updated 4:23 p.m. PT, Tues., Oct . 27, 2009
The Cascadia thrust fault, one of the most dangerous and powerful faults on Earth, will hit even closer to home than anyone thought possible, according to a new study.
If the new findings are accurate, the fault will rupture within 68 miles of downtown Seattle, pouring seismic energy into a densely populated urban area, threatening to knock down buildings both large and small, and endangering the lives of the city's nearly 10 million residents.
The threat of earthquakes is just a part of life for those living in Seattle, Vancouver and throughout the Puget Sound region. Scientists know it is just a matter of time before Cascadia lets loose a devastating quake on the order of magnitude 9.0.
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From 11/2/1975 ( I launched from Earth by myself to intercept Comet Lucifer in the outer solar system ) To 8/17/1994 ( Tom Clancy "Debt of Honor" ) is 6863 days
From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) to 4/30/1982 ( my graduation and commissioning U.S. Naval Academy Class of 1982 as Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan U.S. Navy ) is: 6863 days
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Sunday, August 21, 1994
Classic Clancy -- Jack Ryan Returns, And The Bad Guy This Time Is Japan
By Melinda Bargreen
"Debt of Honor" by Tom Clancy Putnam, $25.95
He's back!
Yes, all you fans of "The Hunt for Red October," "Patriot Games," and the rest of Tom Clancy's bestselling techno-thrillers. Clancy's newest, "Debt of Honor," is poised to assault bestseller lists yet again - not as a submarine, silent and stealthy, but as a nuclear warhead, the same kind that the Japanese are . . . oops!
We don't want to give away the plot here, though there is plenty of plot to give away, in what is probably Clancy's most complicated and ambitious international potboiler yet.
After the mean-spirited and sadistic "Without Remorse," it's a relief to have that novel's claustrophobic atmosphere lifted in a novel that will be long remembered for its energy and exuberance. Unfortunately, "Debt of Honor" also will be remembered for its xenophobia. Japanese villainy - corporate, political and military - is the central threat here, and there are so many racial slurs that you may think you're reading World War II propaganda.
Back in the land of acronyms
We're also back in the world of Clancy's favorite military-bureaucratic abbreviations: CINCPACFLT and ComSubPac and SSNs and ICBMs and ADCAPs, all rallying like mad to save America once again. So are the heroes of Clancy novels past, including the indomitable Jack Ryan, submariners Mancuso and Jones, and a certain mysterious CIA operative named John Clark, the alias of one of Clancy's favorite protagonists.
Clancy balances his politically incorrect plot by bringing in large numbers of women in key positions, from Ryan's prize-winning surgeon wife to important submarine and CIA operatives. The women are mostly paper figures, however, there just to provide feminine pronouns.
What sets this all in motion is a land purchase by a Japanese businessman named Yamata. With nice economy of structure, Clancy makes this purchase the subject of his first sentence: "In retrospect, it would seem an odd way to start a war."
It certainly would, except that by the time you've followed Clancy's line of reasoning through hundreds and hundreds of densely plotted pages, it doesn't seem odd at all; indeed, it makes sense.
Nobody, but nobody, is better than Clancy at the "gathering storm" technique of thriller fiction. Like a master chef, he starts simmering one pot after another on a vast stove-full of burners, returning occasionally for an adroit stir of the action in the nuclear sub, or the Japanese baths, or the international currency market - even the inner sanctum of the Oval Office.
Yes, it is the president, the well-meaning but militarily inexperienced President Durlin - any echoes, here? - who calls Ryan off the golf course and into action as national security adviser. And Ryan proceeds to advise like crazy, treading where the president will not dare, juggling coups in Africa and on the New York Stock Exchange, as well as all the other battle stations of air, land and sea.
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THE MEDIA BUSINESS; As Autumn Nears, Publishers Brace for a Glut of Big-Name Titles
By SARAH LYALL
Published: Monday, August 22, 1994
August is a slow and languorous month for publishing. Employees go on vacation, new books are released in a trickle and most companies in New York close at lunchtime every Friday so the editors can head for the Hamptons.
But this is the calm before the storm, because publishers are actually resting up for the big fall season. Autumn for publishing is like summer is for Hollywood: it is the time when many of the year's splashiest titles are released, bookstores are full of customers and everyone in the industry hopes to find a hit that will carry through until Christmas.
The months between September and December are always crowded with new books by big authors, and this year, booksellers and publishers say, the season looks to be particularly full. A Flood of Titles
The rush has already started with Tom Clancy, whose latest book, "Debt of Honor," has been shipped by its publisher, G. P. Putnam's Sons. The enormous first printing of two million copies began reaching stores Wednesday.
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MON 08/08/1994
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Another Clancy tale
If the ground rumbles Aug. 17, it may be because an estimated 2 million copies of Tom Clancy's new yarn, "Debt of Honor" (Putnam), are scheduled to be laid down in stores. The novel, which received a starred rave in last week's Publishers Weekly, puts the hero, Jack Ryan, in a war of wills set off by what the reviewer calls "a power-hungry Japanese financier."
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Debt of Honor
Debt of Honor (1994) is a novel by Tom Clancy. It is a continuation of the series featuring his character Jack Ryan. In this installment, Ryan has become the National Security Advisor when the Japanese government (controlled by a group of corporate tycoons known as the Zaibatsu) goes to war with the United States.
The Japanese plan has three major components. First, units of Japan's Self-Defense Forces occupy the Marianas Islands, specifically Saipan and Guam. The invasion, conducted with commercial airliners, is virtually bloodless. Meanwhile, during a joint military exercise, Japanese ships "accidentally" launch torpedoes at two of the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet aircraft carriers and two submarines at the conclusion of a joint U.S.-Japan naval exercise, destroying both submarines and crippling the carriers. This drastically reduces the U.S. capability to project power into the western Pacific.
An immediate retaliation is forestalled by the second element of the Japanese plan: an economic attack. Even as the military mission begins, the Japanese cabal engineers the collapse of the American stock market by exploiting flaws in the program trading systems at major brokerages, and then deletes all trade records. With a massive economic crisis, and panic and chaos in America's homeland, it is hoped that America will be too distracted to quickly respond to Japan's military adventures.
Japan immediately sues for a peaceful settlement, offering international talks and seemingly free elections in the Marianas, in attempt to stall and delay an American military response. Negotiators also secretly reveal to the Americans that Japan has obtained nuclear ballistic missile capability.
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An LGM-118A Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic missile points skyward from its position in a silo.
Photographer's Name: SSGT Ronald Rush
Location: F.E. WARREN AIR FORCE BASE
Date Shot: 6/1/1987
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An aerial view of the intercontinental ballistic missile silo super-hardening test site.
Photographer's Name: GARFIELD F. JONES
Location: YUMA
Date Shot: 6/21/1986
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Memorable quotes for
Gone with the Wind (1939)
[first lines]
Brent Tarleton: What do we care if we *were* expelled from college, Scarlett? The war is gonna start any day now, so we'd have left college anyhow.
Stuart Tarleton: Oh, isn't it exciting, Scarlett? You know those fool Yanks may actually *want* a war?
Brent Tarleton: We'll show 'em!
Scarlett: Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war; this war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides... there isn't going to be any war.
Brent Tarleton: Not going to be any war?
Stuart Tarleton: Why, honey, of course there's gonna be a war.
Scarlett: If either of you boys says "war" just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door.
Brent Tarleton: But Scarlett...
Stuart Tarleton: Don't you *want* us to have a war?
[she gets up and walks to the door, to their protestations]
Scarlett: [relenting] Well... but remember, I warned you.
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Study: Megaquake looms over Seattle
Researchers say fault goes deeper than thought and heads toward city
By Michael Reilly
DiscoveryNews
updated 2 hours, 27 minutes ago
updated 4:23 p.m. PT, Tues., Oct . 27, 2009
The Cascadia thrust fault, one of the most dangerous and powerful faults on Earth, will hit even closer to home than anyone thought possible, according to a new study.
If the new findings are accurate, the fault will rupture within 68 miles of downtown Seattle, pouring seismic energy into a densely populated urban area, threatening to knock down buildings both large and small, and endangering the lives of the city's nearly 10 million residents.
The threat of earthquakes is just a part of life for those living in Seattle, Vancouver and throughout the Puget Sound region. Scientists know it is just a matter of time before Cascadia lets loose a devastating quake on the order of magnitude 9.0.
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A View to a Kill
1:44:57
It's time to flood the fault.
1:45:04
But... May Day. And my men.
1:45:07
Yeah. A convenient coincidence.
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Quake catastrophe like Japan's could hit Pacific Northwest, new data show
By M. Alex Johnson, msnbc.com
A massive earthquake like the one that unleashed a giant tsunami and killed nearly 16,000 people in Japan a year ago not only could happen here in the U.S., but probably will — and relatively soon in terms of seismological history.
The Tohoku earthquake was the most closely monitored in history, yielding an unprecedented breadth of data, geophysicists and seismologists say. And for residents of the Pacific Northwest, the new data should be worrisome.
"It's just like Japan, only a mirror image," said Gerard Fryer, a geophysicist at the University of Hawaii and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.
The disaster in Japan occurred because of stress from the Pacific tectonic plate sliding below Japan, according to new research discussed last month at the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Vancouver, British Columbia.
While most Americans probably think the San Andreas fault running through California poses the greatest threat of unleashing a killer mega-quake, data from the Japanese quake indicate that the distinction actually belongs to the Cascadia fault line, which runs through southern Canada, Washington and Oregon to Northern California, Anderson said at the conference.
Like Fryer, he called the Pacific Northwest trench a "mirror image" of the Japanese trench — except potentially even more dangerous.
"In this mirror image, one can see that if the same earthquake occurred in Cascadia, the fault would rupture to a significant distance inland, since the Cascadia trench sits much closer to the coastline than the trench off the coast of Japan," Anderson said.
While some probability models predict that a Cascadia earthquake wouldn't rupture so far under the land, "if it does, the data from the Tohoku earthquake predict stronger ground motions along our West Coast than those seen in Japan," he said.
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A View to a Kill
:52:15
- Good morning, Comrade Zorin.
- General Gogol.
:52:18
- This meeting is ill-advised.
- A calculated risk.
:52:22
But necessary,
as you refuse to answer your control.
:52:24
Come to the point, General.
:52:26
You disregard procedure.
:52:29
You did not request approval
before eliminating 007.
:52:33
- Reprisals might jeopardise operations.
- You jeopardise mine!
:52:40
Letting the British penetrate
the Siberian research centre.
:52:42
That was regrettable.
:52:44
Your racing activities
attract unnecessary attention,
:52:48
but more disturbing are your
unauthorised commercial ventures.
:52:53
We cannot tolerate that.
:52:55
The issue is irrelevant.
I've made new associations.
:52:58
I no longer consider myself a KGB agent.
:53:00
We trained you. Financed you.
:53:04
What would you be without us?
A biological experiment. A freak.
:53:17
Enough of this! Control yourselves.
:53:25
You will come back to us, Comrade.
No one ever leaves the KGB.
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Memorable quotes for
A View to a Kill (1985)
General Anatol Gogol: [Bond has just received the Order of Lenin from General Gogol] The order of Lenin, for Comrade Bond. The first ever non-Soviet citizen to receive this award.
M: I'd thought the KGB would have celebrated if Silicon Valley had been destroyed.
General Anatol Gogol: On the contrary, Admiral, where would Russian research be without it?
"Debt of Honor" [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
"A Jack Ryan Novel"
Tom Clancy
BERKLEY paperback 1994
$8.99 U.S.
Page 990
"Ladies and gentlemen, what happened tonight was an attempt by someone to destroy the government of the United States. They killed President Durling, and I guess they killed most of the Congress - it's too soon, I'm afraid, to be sure of much.
"But I am sure of this: America is much harder to destroy than people are. My dad was a cop, as you heard. He and my mom were killed in a plane crash
