7-16-95. NYPaper: "The Spies' Code and How It Broke. The Russians had a problem: it's almost impossible to be perfectly random. The Russians suffered from a lapse in quality control. They inadvertently let some pattern find its way into their scrambled codes, a loose thread that allowed American code breakers to unravel the scheme. "Given a pure, perfect one-time system, you're not going to break it," said David Kahn, visiting historian at the N.S.A.'s Center for Cryptologic History. RAN_dum "Twilight of the Nukes. The post-war years were spent hoarding nuclear weapons. Now it's time to put them away." Since that first nuclear test the United States has built 70,000 nuclear weapons of almost every conceivable kind: warheads, artillery shells, land mines, depth charges and even backpack-style plutonium explosives weighing 58 pounds but equivalent to 10 tons of TNT. But now it is the twilight of the nukes. They are being taken apart by the United States and the Soviet Union at the rate of 10 or 12 a day, and the new problem is how to keep track them of all. TWI_god
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