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<text id=92TT0807>
<title>
Apr. 13, 1992: The Weapon That Won't Go Away
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Apr. 13, 1992 Campus of the Future
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
GRAPEVINE, Page 19
THE WEAPON THAT WON'T GO AWAY
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<p>By Janice Castro/Reported by Wendy Cole
</p>
<p> Saddam never got a chance to use his Supergun, a powerful
megacannon capable of hurling chemical, biological or nuclear
warheads hundreds of miles. U.N. forces dismantled two models
in Iraq last year, one an incomplete version with a barrel 165
yards long. But Western intelligence agents in the Middle East
are nervously tracking another design that is much easier to
build. Unlike earlier models, the new weapon uses ordinary
1/8-in. bridge wire, a steel fiber common in the construction
of suspension bridges. Spun while red-hot around large-diameter
steel pipe, the wire strengthens the barrel enough to withstand
the pressures of firing long-distance shells. Syria, Libya and
other potential users would have no trouble manufacturing such
guns.
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</body></article>
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