The Reagan Administration today welcomed a Soviet proposal to dismantle a disputed radar complex in Siberia as a "positive step."
The Central Intelligence Agency said in 1985 that the radar complex was "potentially quite vulnerable" in the early stage of an attack.
And for the second day, the 887-foot-long battleship Missouri hurled 2,700-pound shells at the Iraqis, reportedly hitting an artillery battery and a radar complex.
He didn't know that the first salvo had inadvertently immolated the command bunker for the radar complex.
It operates four radar complexes, a software and support facility as well as a command and report centre.
The radar complex is now part of Camp Hero State Park which adjoins Montauk Point State Park.
Its primary mission was as a radar complex.
The Soviets have offered to place the radar complex under international control for use in space research, a proposal that the White House rejected as inadequate.
But far away up at the Alaskan radar complex a man on duty watch was relieved by another.
On September 21, IAF Canberras carried out a daring daylight strike into Pakistan at the radar complex in Badin.