http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=43222
The American Presidency Project
Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Remarks at the Reopening of the Press Briefing Room at the White House
November 9, 1981
Mr. Brady. It's nice to be back. I was told I was going to say hello to you and that was it. Hello, good friends. [Cheers]
Reporters. Hi, Jim. Good to see you.
Mr. Brady. We tried to run over Sam [Sam Donaldson, ABC News] out in the street. [Laughter]
Mr. Donaldson. If you can't beat 'em, run 'em down. [Laughter]
Mr. Brady. That's right.
[At this point, the President and Mrs. Reagan entered the Briefing Room. ]
The President. Well, aren't we overwhelmed by the grandeur of the place? First, let me welcome all you orphans home. You know, we sort of missed you. It's been quiet over here, kind of like when the kids go back to school. [Laughter] You know, of course, this press room is still built over a swimming pool. Now, it isn't true, however, that the floor has been hinged-
Mr. Brady. Yes, it is. [Laughter]
The President. —and can be sprung like a trap. Not that you would ever ask the wrong questions. [Laughter] But if you should, we have installed one new feature. The place is wired for sound. We can press a button here on the podium and get instant helicopter noise in here. [Laughter]
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MODEST MOUSE
"Space Travel Is Boring"
Won herself a pass to some far off moon
It was second class but what's to lose
And looking out her window she could more than assume
That you can't see air or time
She's the only rocketeer in the whole damn place
They gave her a mirror so she could talk to a face
She still got plenty lonely but that's just the case
With time, time, time
Started hearing voices sometime in June
She knew she could go crazy but didn't think that soon
Now she doesn't feel lonely but she'd just as soon
Try, try, try try
Man shot to the moon
I read a paperback and want to come home soon
I'm shot to the moon
Been there a half an hour, I want to come home soon
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The American Presidency Project
George Bush
XLI President of the United States: 1989 - 1993
Statement on the Russia-United States Agreement on the Disposition of Uranium From Nuclear Weapons
August 31, 1992
Over the past year the United States and the former Soviet Union have agreed to cut their strategic nuclear arsenals by two-thirds and to eliminate most of their tactical nuclear weapons, including all ground-launched systems. As a result of these dramatic reductions, thousands of nuclear warheads are being dismantled in Russia and the United States. The United States and Russia are cooperating closely to help ensure the safe and secure transport, storage, and dismantlement of former Soviet nuclear weapons.
I am pleased to announce that the Russian Federation and the United States have now also initialed an agreement to ensure that highly enriched uranium from dismantled nuclear weapons will be used only for peaceful purposes. Our two Governments have initialed an agreement, which we expect to sign quickly, providing for the conversion of this material into civilian reactor fuel. We have also agreed to establish measures to ensure that the nonproliferation, physical security, material accounting and control, and environmental requirements covering this material are fully met.
Under the agreement, the United States and Russia would seek within the next 12 months to conclude an implementing contract establishing the terms of the purchase of weapons-grade uranium by the U.S. Department of Energy and the dilution of that material to reactor-grade uranium for sale as commercial reactor fuel. The contract would also provide for the participation of the U.S. private sector and the use by the Russian Federation of a portion of the proceeds to increase the safety of nuclear reactors in the former Soviet Union.
Abroad, this agreement will help ensure that nuclear weapons-grade material does not fall into the wrong hands, while providing funds to promote economic reforms and the transition to a market-based economy. At home, this agreement will secure long-term supplies of less expensive fuel for U.S. nuclear power stations to the benefit of American consumers, with no adverse impact on American jobs. Thus, this U.S.-Russian agreement illustrates how foreign policy accomplishments can promote our domestic economic well-being while making the world a safer place to live.
From 7/16/1963 ( Phoebe Cates the wife of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 5/14/1990 ( departing as United States Navy Fire Controlman Second Class Petty Officer Kerry Wayne Burgess my honorable discharge from United States Navy active service for commissioning as chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps and circa 2012 my United States of America military services continues as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps lieutenant general ) is 9799 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/31/1992 is 9799 days
From 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) To 8/31/1992 is 250 days
250 = 125 + 125
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/7/1966 ( Chad Trammell ) is 125 days
From 8/9/1913 ( Austria communicates to Italy and Germany their intention of taking action against Serbia ) To 4/6/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The City on the Edge of Forever" ) is 19598 days
19598 = 9799 + 9799
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/31/1992 is 9799 days
From 8/17/1960 ( premiere US film "The Time Machine" ) To 8/31/1992 is 11702 days
11702 = 5851 + 5851
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/9/1981 ( Ronald Reagan - Remarks at the Reopening of the Press Briefing Room at the White House ) is 5851 days
From 8/17/1960 ( the Soviet Union trial of the United States Central Intelligence Agency pilot Gary Powers begins in Moscow Russia Soviet Union ) To 8/31/1992 is 11702 days
11702 = 5851 + 5851
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/9/1981 ( Ronald Reagan - Remarks at the Reopening of the Press Briefing Room at the White House ) is 5851 days
From 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 ) To 8/31/1992 is 592 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/17/1967 ( the first hydrogen bomb explosion by Communist China and with the ongoing support of the George Herbert Walker Bush spy network violently against the United States of America ) is 592 days
From 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) To 8/31/1992 is 592 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/17/1967 ( the first hydrogen bomb explosion by Communist China and with the ongoing support of the George Herbert Walker Bush spy network violently against the United States of America ) is 592 days
From 2/17/1909 ( Geronimo deceased ) To 10/15/1962 ( the United States National Photographic Interpretation Center determined that Soviet Union offensive missiles and launchers had been placed in Cuba ) is 19598 days
19598 = 9799 + 9799
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/31/1992 is 9799 days
From 12/7/1941 ( the United States Navy Pacific Fleet severely damaged in the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor Hawaii ) To 8/31/1992 is 18530 days
18530 = 9265 + 9265
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) is 9265 days
From 3/5/1963 ( Patsy Cline killed in airplane crash ) To 8/31/1992 is 10772 days
10772 = 5386 + 5386
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/1/1980 ( premiere US film "The Final Countdown" ) is 5386 days
From 9/20/1962 ( premiere US film "No Man Is an Island" ) To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash ) is 9799 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/31/1992 is 9799 days
From 4/9/1986 ( "You say you hate Washington's Birthday or Thanksgiving and nobody cares" ) To 8/31/1992 is 2336 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/26/1972 ( premiere US TV miniseries "The Last of the Mohicans" ) is 2336 days
From 6/23/1971 ( premiere US film "Le Mans" ) To 8/31/1992 is 7740 days
7740 = 3870 + 3870
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/7/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in deep space of the solar system in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day was his first landing the Saturn moon Phoebe and the Saturn moon Phoebe territory belongs to my brother Thomas Reagan ) is 3870 days
From 8/15/1941 ( Franklin Roosevelt - Joint Message with Prime Minister Churchill Asking for the Moscow Conference ) To 8/31/1992 is 18644 days
18644 = 9322 + 9322
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/12/1991 ( I was the winning race driver at the Monaco Grand Prix ) is 9322 days
http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/public_papers.php?id=4736&year=1992&month=8
George Bush [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Presidential Library and Museum
Public Papers - 1992 - August
Statement on the Russia-United States Agreement on the Disposition of Uranium From Nuclear Weapons
1992-08-31
Over the past year the United States and the former Soviet Union have agreed to cut their strategic nuclear arsenals by two-thirds and to eliminate most of their tactical nuclear weapons, including all ground-launched systems. As a result of these dramatic reductions, thousands of nuclear warheads are being dismantled in Russia and the United States. The United States and Russia are cooperating closely to help ensure the safe and secure transport, storage, and dismantlement of former Soviet nuclear weapons.
I am pleased to announce that the Russian Federation and the United States have now also initialed an agreement to ensure that highly enriched uranium from dismantled nuclear weapons will be used only for peaceful purposes. Our two Governments have initialed an agreement, which we expect to sign quickly, providing for the conversion of this material into civilian reactor fuel. We have also agreed to establish measures to ensure that the nonproliferation, physical security, material accounting and control, and environmental requirements covering this material are fully met.
Under the agreement, the United States and Russia would seek within the next 12 months to conclude an implementing contract establishing the terms of the purchase of weapons-grade uranium by the U.S. Department of Energy and the dilution of that material to reactor-grade uranium for sale as commercial reactor fuel. The contract would also provide for the participation of the U.S. private sector and the use by the Russian Federation of a portion of the proceeds to increase the safety of nuclear reactors in the former Soviet Union.
Abroad, this agreement will help ensure that nuclear weapons-grade material does not fall into the wrong hands, while providing funds to promote economic reforms and the transition to a market-based economy. At home, this agreement will secure long-term supplies of less expensive fuel for U.S. nuclear power stations to the benefit of American consumers, with no adverse impact on American jobs. Thus, this U.S.-Russian agreement illustrates how foreign policy accomplishments can promote our domestic economic well-being while making the world a safer place to live.
http://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-cuban-missile-crisis
HISTORY
October 16, 2012
10 Things You May Not Know About the Cuban Missile Crisis
By Christopher Klein
1. The U-2 aerial photographs were analyzed inside a secret office above a used car dealership.
The critical photographs snapped by U-2 reconnaissance planes over Cuba were shipped for analysis to a top-secret CIA facility in a most unlikely location: a building above the Steuart Ford car dealership in a rundown section of Washington, D.C. While used car salesmen were wheeling and dealing downstairs on October 15, 1962, upstairs CIA analysts in the state-of-the-art National Photographic Interpretation Center were working around the clock to scour hundreds of grainy photographs for evidence of a Soviet ballistic missile site under construction.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/spiesfly/brugioni.html
NOVA
Master of the Surveillance Image
Dino Brugioni probably knows more about analyzing spy photographs than perhaps anyone alive. One of the founding officers of the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC), which got its start in 1955, Brugioni brought his skills to bear on numerous international crises during his three and a half decades with the CIA. The downing of Gary Powers' U-2 spyplane in 1960, the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, the Yom Kippur War in 1973—Brugioni played a significant, behind-the-scenes role in each of these historic events. Here, listen in as he shares memories from his many decades of watching from on high.
NOVA: What was your role in the Cuban missile crisis?
Brugioni: Well, I was chief of the information branch [of the NPIC]. My job was to provide all the collateral support to the photo interpreters. It was my responsibility, for example, to create what we called a briefing board. It was 20 by 22 inches, and there were two copies made, one for the Director of the CIA and one for the Secretary of Defense. I also prepared what were called briefing notes. On a little card I would have pertinent details about the length of the mission, how much photography we got, and any pertinent information that related to the photography from other sources.
NOVA: Weren't you one of the people who reported to the high powers that the Soviets were setting up missile bases in Cuba?
Brugioni: We had a report from an agent in Cuba that there was a trapezoidal area in Cuba in which the Cubans were being moved out and the Russians moved in. Naturally, we wanted to look and see what was happening there, so a U-2 mission was flown over the area. This was on October 14, 1962. The film was processed on the 15th in Washington, and we got the photographs that afternoon (see the Cuba image in Spy Photos).
The scan team were people who were very familiar with the whole area. What drew their eye was that certain objects didn't belong. This is ranch country, and here they were seeing 100-foot tents and 65-foot objects. These weren't manure spreaders or other things you would associate with a ranch.
The photographs were passed to a backup team of missile people. They started looking at the photography, and preliminary measurements were coming up with 65 feet. The photo interpreter in charge called me. I had a looseleaf binder that had all kinds of information on Soviet missiles. It had photographs taken in the streets of Moscow, it had material from Penkovsky. [Editor's note: Colonel Oleg Penkovsky, a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer, gave vital Russian military secrets to the West for 16 months in 1961 and 1962 before he was unmasked and executed.]
http://blog.nasm.si.edu/behind-the-scenes/the-curious-story-of-a-cuban-missile-crisis-artifact/
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
The Curious Story of a Cuban Missile Crisis Artifact
Posted on October 17, 2012 by The National Air and Space Museum
This U-2 photograph, taken Oct 14, 1962, shows a truck convoy approaching a deployment of Soviet medium-range ballistic missiles near Los Palacios at San Cristobal. Analyzed on the Museum’s CIA elevating table, this photograph was the first identified as clear evidence of Soviet medium-range ballistic missiles (MRBM) in Cuba. Credit: Dino A. Brugioni collection at the National Security Archive, George Washington University.
On Monday morning, October 15, 1962, CIA photo interpreters (PIs) hovered anxiously over a light table at the National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC). The mood was urgent and foreboding. They peered down on 928 photographs of high quality—some of the best shots had a resolution of three feet. The images were just 24 hours old and top secret–taken by Major Richard S. Heyser on a clandestine flight over Cuba in a high flying U-2 aircraft. The extraordinary flight would inaugurate a whole series of high and low altitude reconnaissance sorties over Cuba.
One of only two Air Force pilots checked out to fly the CIA-modified U-2, Major Heyser had flown from Edwards Air Force Base in California to photograph a large corridor of territory west of Havana. His onboard camera possessed an effective range of 75 miles. On this spy mission, he encountered no fighter interceptors or anti-aircraft defenses.
This Hycon Model B panoramic camera, installed in a Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft, provided positive proof of the existence of Soviet missiles in Cuba, precipitating a crisis that led the world to the brink of nuclear war. Photo by Eric Long, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
Once Heyser landed his U-2 at McCoy Air Force Base near Orlando, Florida, the exposed film was loaded on a courier aircraft for immediate delivery to the CIA in Washington. From late Sunday afternoon into the night, technicians worked feverishly to transfer the negatives onto clear acetate positives. No effort had been spared to ensure that the high value images reach the green light table at the NPIC for analysis on that fateful Monday morning.
During a work session that extended into the late afternoon the PIs eagerly and painstakingly scrutinized this remarkable cache of photos. They discovered clear evidence of Nikita Khrushchev’s bold move to install a network of missile launch sites in Cuba. All who viewed the photos at the NPIC realized that a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union was now imminent, and it would bring the two Cold War rivals to the brink of a nuclear war.
One of the identified launch sites—dubbed San Cristobal No. 2—revealed telltale signs of construction with six missile trailers, stacked equipment, and tents for the work crews. Arthur Lundahl, the Director of NPIC, viewed this image at the light table. He agreed that this installation was being prepared for SS-4 medium range missiles. “If there was ever a time I want to be right in my life, this is it,” Lundahl later observed. He then contacted CIA Headquarters with this momentous intelligence coup. By 8:00 pm, McGeorge Bundy, the National Security Advisor, had been alerted. When faced with this grim report, Bundy decided to delay his briefing for the President until the following morning.
While still in his pajamas, President Kennedy viewed the photographs in a Tuesday morning briefing. He was told: “Mr. President, there is now hard photographic evidence that the Russians have offensive missiles in Cuba.” The implications of the Soviet installations in Cuba were ominous. Some of the missile launch sites, it was feared, could be armed with nuclear weapons in two weeks. Experts warned that 80 million Americans could die within ten minutes of the firing of missiles from these launch sites, a mere 90 miles off shore.
The rest of the story is well-known. President Kennedy moved quickly to organize a special executive committee to advise him on the proper American response. Both military and diplomatic measures were followed to resolve the crisis. For Kennedy, the removal of the missiles was imperative and non-negotiable. He ordered a quarantine of Cuba on October 21. Plans were in motion to strike the missile bases, even invade Cuba.
President Kennedy’s televised address on October 22 at 7:00 pm alerted the nation to the unfolding crisis. The stakes were indeed high: “It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union.” The enforcement of quarantine (read blockade) meant the possible interception of Soviet ships en route to Cuba. How would the Soviets respond? The fate of the world seemed tied to a hair trigger, one that could be set off by either side.
The crisis ended on October 28 when both superpowers agreed to step back from the abyss. The Soviet Union agreed to withdraw the missiles in exchange for a declaration from the United States that it would not invade Cuba and withdraw missiles from Great Britain and Turkey.
The light table had been at the epicenter of this unparalleled national crisis—what became known as the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Yale Law School
Joint Message of Assistance to the Soviet Union from President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill : August 15, 1941
The following is the text of a joint message from President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill delivered personally on Friday afternoon, August 15, by the British and American Ambassadors to Josef Stalin, President of the Soviet of Peoples Commissars of the U.S.S.R.:
We have taken the opportunity afforded by the consideration of the report of Mr. Harry Hopkins on his return from Moscow to consult together as to how best our two countries can help your country in the splendid defense that you are making against the Nazi attack. We are at the moment cooperating to provide you with the very maximum of supplies that you most urgently need. Already many shiploads have left our shores and more will leave in the immediate future.
We must now turn our minds to the consideration of a more long term policy, since there is still a long and hard path to be traversed before there can be won that complete victory without which our efforts and sacrifices would be wasted.
The war goes on upon many fronts and before it is over there may be further fighting fronts that will be developed. Our resources though immense are limited, and it must become a question as to where and when those resources can best be used to further the greatest extent our common effort. This applies equally to manufactured war supplies and to raw materials.
The needs and demands of your and our armed services can only be determined in the light of the full knowledge of the many factors which must be taken into consideration in the decisions that we make. In order that all of us may be in a position to arrive at speedy decisions as to the apportionment of our joint resources, we suggest that we prepare for a meeting to be held at Moscow, to which we would send high representatives who could discuss these matters directly with you. If this conference appeals to you, we want you to know that pending the decisions of that conference we shall continue to send supplies and material as rapidly as possible.
We realize fully how vitally important to the defeat of Hitlerism is the brave and steadfast resistance of the Soviet Union and we feel therefore that we must not in any circumstances fail to act quickly and immediately in this matter on planning the program for the future allocation of our joint resources.
Signed: FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Signed: WINSTON S. CHURCHILL
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/boshtml/bos152.htm
The Projected Austrian Intervention in Serbia in 1913.
The ex-premier of Italy, Signor Giolitti, in a speech delivered in the Chamber of Deputies on December 5, 1914, revealed the fact that in 1913 Austria-Hungary had planned to attack Serbia. He said that on August 9, 1913, he had received the following telegram from the Marquis di San Giuliano:
Austria has communicated to us and to Germany her intention of taking action against Serbia, and defines such action is defensive, hoping to bring into operation the casus foederis of the Triple Alliance.
He replied:
If Austria intervenes against Serbia, it is clear that a casus foederis can not be established. It is a step which she is taking on her own account, since there is no question of defense, inasmuch as no one is thinking of attacking her.
The fact that the Treaty of Bucharest was signed on the day following Giolitti's receipt of the telegram reveals Austria's motive as a desire to prevent Serbia from profiting by the conclusion of a highly advantageous treaty.
The telegram indicates that the assassination of the Archduke was the occasion rather than the cause of Austria's ultimatum to Serbia, and it reveals the reason for Austria's action in July, 1914, in omitting to notify Italy in advance of her demands upon Serbia.
The authenticity of the telegram is established by the fact that the Austrian Government has not denied it. Its contents are brought into relief by the statements of M. Pichon, ex-minister of foreign affairs of France. The Paris correspondent of Il Giornale d'Italia reported (December 29, 1914) a conversation which he had with M. Pichon on the subject of Giolitti's disclosure. M. Pichon said that in June, 1913, when he was minister of foreign affairs, at the time of the affair of Scutari, the Italian Government had informed him that Austria had notified it of her intentions with regard to Serbia, and that the Italian Government had replied that the casus foederis was not applicable.
Source: Anderson, Frank Maloy and Amos Shartle Hershey, Handbook for the Diplomatic History of Europe, Asia, and Africa 1870-1914. Prepared for the National Board for Historical Service. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1918.
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/feros-pg.htm
Vincent Ferraro
The Ruth C. Lawson Professor of International Politics
Mount Holyoke College
AB, Dartmouth College; MIA, Columbia University; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/28.htm
The City on the Edge of Forever
Stardate: 3134.0
Original Airdate: Apr 6, 1967
(Edith is pouring cups of brown liquid.)
MCCOY: Oh, Miss. That coffee, it just smells wonderful.
EDITH: You look terrible! You'd better sit down. Come on.
MCCOY: I can't. I got to keep moving. I can't let them find me.
EDITH: There's a cot in the back room. They won't find you there.
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No Man Is an Island (1962)
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M. Chad Trammell, born Texarkana, Texas, March 7, 1966; admitted to bar, 1991
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The City on the Edge of Forever
Stardate: 3134.0
Original Airdate: Apr 6, 1967
EDITH: Why does Spock call you Captain? Were you in the war together?
KIRK: We served together.
EDITH: And you don't want to talk about it? Why? Did you do something wrong?
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The City on the Edge of Forever
Stardate: 3134.0
Original Airdate: Apr 6, 1967
SPOCK: Captain, I must have some platinum. A small block would be sufficient, five or six pounds. By passing certain circuits through there to be used as a duodynetic field core.
KIRK: Mister Spock, I've brought you some assorted vegetables, baloney in a hard rolls for myself, and I've spent the other nine tenths of our combined salaries for the last three days on filling this order for you. Mister Spock, this bag doesn't contain platinum, silver or gold, nor is it likely to in the near future.
SPOCK: Captain, you're asking me to work with equipment which hardly very far ahead of stone knives and bearskins.
KIRK: McCoy will be along in a few days, perhaps sooner. There's no guarantee that these currents in time will bring us together. This has to work.
SPOCK: Captain. Captain, in three weeks at this rate, possibly a month, I might reach the first mnemonic memory circuits.
(There's a knock at the door.)
KIRK: Your hat.
EDITH: If you can leave immediately, I can get you five hours work at twenty two cents an hour. What? What on Earth is that?
SPOCK: I am endeavouring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/28.htm
The City on the Edge of Forever
Stardate: 3134.0
Original Airdate: Apr 6, 1967
KIRK: What are you?
GUARDIAN: I am the Guardian of Forever.
KIRK: Are you machine or being?
GUARDIAN: I am both and neither. I am my own beginning, my own ending.
SPOCK: I see no reason for answers to be couched in riddles.
GUARDIAN: I answer as simply as your level of understanding makes possible.
SPOCK: A time portal, Captain. A gateway to other times and dimensions, if I'm correct.
GUARDIAN: As correct as possible for you. Your science knowledge is obviously primitive.
SPOCK: Really.
KIRK: Annoyed, Spock?
GUARDIAN: Behold. A gateway
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MODEST MOUSE
"Space Travel Is Boring"
I read a paperback and want to come home soon
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IMDb
No Man Is an Island (1962)
Release Info
USA 20 September 1962
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IMDb
No Man Is an Island (1962)
Full Cast & Crew
Jeffrey Hunter ... George R. Tweed
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=43222
The American Presidency Project
Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Remarks at the Reopening of the Press Briefing Room at the White House
November 9, 1981
Mr. Brady. It's nice to be back. I was told I was going to say hello to you and that was it. Hello, good friends. [Cheers]
Reporters. Hi, Jim. Good to see you.
Mr. Brady. We tried to run over Sam [Sam Donaldson, ABC News] out in the street. [Laughter]
Mr. Donaldson. If you can't beat 'em, run 'em down. [Laughter]
Mr. Brady. That's right.
[At this point, the President and Mrs. Reagan entered the Briefing Room. ]
The President. Well, aren't we overwhelmed by the grandeur of the place? First, let me welcome all you orphans home. You know, we sort of missed you. It's been quiet over here, kind of like when the kids go back to school. [Laughter] You know, of course, this press room is still built over a swimming pool. Now, it isn't true, however, that the floor has been hinged-
Mr. Brady. Yes, it is. [Laughter]
The President. —and can be sprung like a trap. Not that you would ever ask the wrong questions. [Laughter] But if you should, we have installed one new feature. The place is wired for sound. We can press a button here on the podium and get instant helicopter noise in here. [Laughter]
No, seriously, we have added one feature that will help Larry and David in answering your questions. This microphone now has a built-in scrambler, and before you say-don't say, "Are you using it now?" I'm not. But knowing your great interest in one subject, you'll have plenty to write about. We have new china at the snack bar. [Laughter]
Although this press room is often filled with lightheartedness, I don't need to stress the serious and essential role you play in our democracy. The public depends on you to keep them informed about what we're really doing here and expects you to keep an eye on the Presidency. And, Sam, that doesn't mean you can put a ladder up to the third floor windows. [Laughter]
As happy as we are about reopening today, we are even more elated by the presence of a man who truly belongs in this room, a man whose courage has been an inspiration to all of us. And I'm proud that Jim Brady is my Press Secretary. Jim, we're all waiting for the day that you're back for good. [Cheers]
Mr. Brady. I am, too, Mr. President.
The President. Jim says he is, too. So, in dedicating these new facilities, let me just say that I hope this room is always filled with as much integrity and good humor as Jim Brady has brought to it. And now, I've been looking forward to cutting this ribbon. I've been practicing all morning on Ed Meese's tie. [Laughter]
And, of course, you know that with us here is Jim's wife, Sarah, and his mother, Dorothy Brady, and Sarah's mother, Francie Kemp. And we're delighted that you could be here for this.
Now, are you ready, Jim?
Mr. Brady. I'm ready when you are, sir.
The President. Here we go.
[At this point, the President and the Press Secretary cut the ribbon.]
Mr. Brady. Nice job.
The President. Now, I was told that I had to get right out of here and go back to work. It seems that you and I are going to be meeting in the next 24 hours or so.
Reporter. When is that press conference, Mr. President?
The President. It's tomorrow, I think, isn't it? [Laughter] At 2 o'clock, tomorrow.
Reporter. You can't give us an advance word on your budget-cut package? A little something for the overnights? [Laughter]
The President. Why, you all know from the way you act about it, I can't say anything until they tell me what I'm supposed to say. [Laughter]
Reporter. We'll say it's an unnamed source. [Laughter]
The President. Jim, good, good to see you. And I'm going to have to run along here now.
Mr. Brady. All right. Take care, Mr. President. Thank you.
The President. Bless you.
Mr. Brady. [Speaking to Mrs. Reagan] Am I still your "Y and H"?
The President. The husband is always the last to know. [Laughter]
Mrs. Reagan. Do you know what the "Y and H" is? You know when there was that story going around that—well, I'm not even going to go into it. [Laughter]
Reporters. Oh, come on. [Laughter]
Mrs. Reagan. Well, anyway, I kept calling Jim my "Y and H"—my young and handsome. [Laughter] He's still my "Y and H."
Mr. Brady. Thank you.
Mrs. Reagan. See you later, "Y and H." [Applause]
Mr. Brady. All right.
Reporter. It is all under review. [Laughter]
Reporter. Jim, you come back and see us, okay?
Mr. Brady. I'll come back.
Reporter. Real soon.
Reporter. Good show, Bear.
Mr. Brady. Helen [Helen Thomas, United Press International] said all is forgiven. I can come back. [Laughter]
Ms. Thomas. Thank you, Mr. Press Secretary.
Mr. Brady. You're welcome.
Reporters. We miss you. We all miss you, Jim.
Mr. Brady. I miss you, too.
Reporter. Yeah, these other guys aren't as tough. [Laughter]
Mr. Brady. I miss most of you. [Laughter]
Note: The ribbon-cutting ceremony began at 12 noon in the Briefing Room at the White House, which had been closed for repair and renovation since August. During the 3-month period, reporters and several White House staff members were moved to the Old Executive Office Building, where the daily press' briefings were held.
The dedication ceremony marked the first public visit to the White House Briefing Room by Press Secretary to the President James S. Brady since March 30, 1981, when he was wounded during the attempted assassination of the President outside the Washington Hilton Hotel.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/421827/nuclear-weapon/275662/China
Encyclopædia Britannica
nuclear weapon
China
After winning the civil war in 1949, the new Chinese communist leadership viewed the United States—which backed the Nationalist Party of Chiang Kai-shek on Taiwan—as its main foreign threat. A series of conflicts and confrontations, beginning with the Korean War (1950–53), made China fear American military action and the possible use of U.S. nuclear weapons against China.
China began to explore the feasibility of a thermonuclear bomb at the same time it initiated its atomic bomb program. More concrete plans to proceed were begun in December 1960, with the formation of a group by the Institute of Atomic Energy to do research on thermonuclear materials and reactions. In late 1963, after the design of the atomic bomb was complete, the Theoretical Department of the Ninth Academy, under the direction of Deng Jiaxian, was ordered to shift to thermonuclear work. Facilities were constructed to produce lithium-6 deuteride and other required components. By the end of 1965 the theoretical work for a multistage bomb had been completed, and manufacture of the test device was finished by the end of 1966. The first Chinese multistage fusion device, with a yield of three megatons, was detonated on June 17, 1967—this was only 32 months after China’s first atomic test, the shortest span of the first five nuclear powers.
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/28.htm
The City on the Edge of Forever
Stardate: 3134.0
Original Airdate: Apr 6, 1967
(Edith is pouring cups of brown liquid.)
MCCOY: Oh, Miss. That coffee, it just smells wonderful.
EDITH: You look terrible! You'd better sit down. Come on.
MCCOY: I can't. I got to keep moving. I can't let them find me.
EDITH: There's a cot in the back room. They won't find you there. Come on.
(She helps him out just as Spock comes in and starts serving the drinks.
[Room]
SPOCK: This is how history went after McCoy changed it. Here, in the late 1930s. A growing pacifist movement whose influence delayed the United States' entry into the Second World War. While peace negotiations dragged on, Germany had time to complete its heavy-water experiments.
KIRK: Germany. Fascism. Hitler. They won the Second World War.
SPOCK: Because all this lets them develop the A-bomb first. There's no mistake, Captain. Let me run it again. Edith Keeler. Founder of the peace movement.
KIRK: But she was right. Peace was the way.
SPOCK: She was right, but at the wrong time. With the A-bomb, and with their V2 rockets to carry them, Germany captured the world.
KIRK: No.
SPOCK: And all this because McCoy came back and somehow kept her from dying in a street accident as she was meant to. We must stop him, Jim.
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/28.htm
The City on the Edge of Forever
Stardate: 3134.0
Original Airdate: Apr 6, 1967
EDITH: Why does Spock call you Captain? Were you in the war together?
KIRK: We served together.
EDITH: And you don't want to talk about it? Why? Did you do something wrong? Are you afraid of something? Whatever it is, let me help.
KIRK: Let me help. A hundred years or so from now, I believe, a famous novelist will write a classic using that theme. He'll recommend those three words even over I love you.
EDITH: Centuries from now? Who is he? Where does he come? Where will he come from?
KIRK: Silly question. Want to hear a silly answer?
EDITH: Yes.
KIRK: A planet circling that far left star in Orion's belt.
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http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/enlisted/community/surface_cs_ops/Pages/FC.aspx
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Fire Controlman
General Description
The Navy's Advanced Electronics / Computer Field offers extensive training in all aspects of electronics including computer systems, radars, communications systems and weapons fire control systems such as the Navy's advanced missile system, Aegis.
What They Do
Only two Navy job specialties, called "ratings", are included in the Advanced Electronics / Computer Field: Electronics Technician (ET) and Fire Controlman (FC). The rating in which an Advanced Electronics / Computer Field candidate is trained is determined in the initial phase of the Advanced Electronics Technical Core Course in Great Lakes, Ill. However, eligibility requirements are the same for both ratings in the Advanced Electronics / Computer Field. ETs maintain and repair electronics equipment such as radar, communication and navigation equipment. The ET and FC (AEF) ratings comprise the basis of the ship's Combat Systems department aboard ships and are responsible for maintaining the ship's readiness for combat operations.
Working Environment
Jobs performed by FCs are performed throughout the Navy's Fleet of surface ships including aircraft carriers and Aegis cruisers, and at repair activities ashore.
Requirements ASVAB: AR + MK + EI + GS = 222
Must have normal color perception
Security clearance required
72 month obligation
Must be a U.S. Citizen
http://navybmr.com/study%20material2/NAVEDTRA%2014190.pdf
NONRESIDENT TRAINING COURSE
SEPTEMBER 1998
UNITED STATES NAVY
Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series
Module 18—Radar Principles
NAVEDTRA 14190
page 1-40
The MINIMUM RANGE of a radar system can be calculated from the formula:
minimum range = (pulse width + recovery time) X 164 yards / microsecond
The MAXIMUM RANGE of a pulse radar system depends on the CARRIER FREQUENCY, PEAK POWER, PULSE-REPETITION FREQUENCY, and RECEIVER SENSITIVITY.
PULSE-REPETITION TIME is the time between the beginning of one pulse and the beginning of the next pulse and is the reciprocal of prf.
prt = 1 / prf
AMBIGUOUS RETURNS are echoes from targets that exceed the prt of the radar system and result in false range readings. The maximum (unambiguous) range for a radar system can be determined by the formula:
Rmax = 162.000 miles/second / 2 X prt
The PEAK POWER of a radar system is the total energy contained in a pulse. Peak power is obtained by multiplying the maximum power level of a pulse by the pulse width.
Since most instruments are designed to measure AVERAGE POWER over a period of time, prt must be included in transmitter power measurements. The formula for average power is:
Pavg = Ppk X pw / prt
or
Pavg = Ppk X pw X prf
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