European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 13, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday july 13,1990 the stars and stripes a a Page 9 War array of computers stores . Strategy by Patrick e. Tyler Washington Post Washington a one of the truisms that Gen. Colin l Powell chairman of the joint chiefs of staff likes to repeat in these Days of global political change is that the soviet Union will remain into the future the Only nation on Earth that could destroy the United states with its nuclear Arsenal. For 40 years the . Insurance policy against a soviet nuclear attack has been an equally destructive nuclear Arsenal linked with elaborate care into a massive retaliatory plan controlled by the president and known by its acronym Slop for single integrated operating plan. The Siop presents the president with a Range of options to respond to anything from a single nuclear warhead strike by the soviet Union to All out thermonuclear War. According to one former strategic planner it includes about 21,000 targets in the soviet Union among which . Strategic commanders could distribute the roughly 11,000 warheads in the american Arsenal. Many in Congress and some Pentagon officials Are beginning to plan for a world in which nuclear War with the soviet Union and the Siop Are less immediate concerns than they have been for the last generation. But a group of air Force planners is proceeding on the Assumption that the coming decade should be a coalition targets Dod spending Washington apr fortified by support and peace pops from Ben amp Jerry a ice Cream a coalition of 114 groups launched a nationwide Campaign wednesday to halve defense spending within 10 years. A the world has changed but the Pentagon budget has not a John Isaacs legislative director for the Council for a liable world told a news conference. The coalition of arms control groups religious organizations businesses scientists environmentalists and labor unions is calling for a defense budget of $157 billion by the end of the decade. President Bush has requested $307 billion in military spending for the fiscal year beginning oct 1. Along with cuts of 2 percent a after inflation a each year. Based on those cuts a Pentagon Budet for fiscal year 2000 would total about 1257 billion the coalition said. Lawrence Korb a Brookings institution analyst said a 50 percent Cut could be achieved by reducing Active and civilian personnel in half scrapping the b-2 stealth bomber and limiting funds for the strategic defense initiative to $2 billion a year. The nationwide Campaign will include Public service advertisements on radio. The Campaign also includes Ben amp Jerry a peace pop. The ice Cream carries the reminder a peace is possible a and tells buyers a for just 1 percent of the Money our country now spends on armaments we can build International Bonds of  period of growth for nuclear War planning. Deep within the air forces classified spending plans for 1992-97 is a memorandum that outlines the services $ 1 billion five year budget and upgrade of the strategic War planning system the vast computer network responsible for maintaining the Siop As a constantly updated blueprint for launching missiles feeding them target data and sending manned bombers on predetermined courses. A four Page memorandum on the system describes it As a an end to end War planning process4�?T serving the presidents a mandated guidance for nuclear and conventional  a this process Plahs disseminates and implements strategic War plans at the Force and unit Levels and provides the vital link Between planners and the weapons systems a it says. Some startling statistics emerge on the sheer scale of the computer brain for the american nuclear War apparatus headquartered at Offutt fab in Omaha neb. Describing the a triad computer system and the Quot strategic Mission data preparation system Quot the air Force memorandum says the system consists of four mainframes 500-plus terminals workstations 21,000 data tapes and associated  software to support Force level planners producing the Siop presently includes Over 21 million lines of code a the memo said. A Ione of code is a single set of instructions telling a computer How to perform computing operations m sequence. By comparison the new generation of . Fighters bombers and submarines run on computers that carry i million to 3 million lines of software code. The air Force memo says the Siop Quot software investment is estimated to be Over $1  the current Siop computer system was designed in the late 1970s and Early 1980s and is based on inc ism 370 mainframe computer. But even with steady budget increases during the defense buildup of the 1980s, the Siop computer today is overloaded the air Force asserts. The memo notes that a the storage capacity for the triad computer system is already filled to capacity during the Peak Siop production periods and must be increased to meet the rapid requirements increase Quot among those requirements increases arc new weapons systems the air Force wants to add to the strategic triad such As the b-2 stealth bomber and the midget Mari single warhead missile. After new features Are added in fiscal years 1993 and 1994, the Siop computer system will be ready for the 21st Century and its Mission to guide if necessary . Strategic forces in coordination Quot with nato forces to ensure optimum utilization of weapons and  defusing world War ii mines a a French explosives expert poses southwestern France. A team of bomb 159 pounds of explosives. Left Over wednesday with some of the underway disposal experts has been defusing the from the last world War they have been Ter mines found near Bordeaux in 85 German mines which each contain sitting in abandoned mines since  lax in conserving Energy House panel told by the Cox news service Washington a the defense department is not conserving Energy As Congress ordered lawmakers and business executives charged wednesday. The departments record As a whole a looks pretty shabby and shows an appalling Lack of forethought a said Mike Synar d-okla., chairman of a House Energy subcommittee. Although Congress has called on Federal agencies to reduce Energy use consumption per Square foot in defense department facilities increased 1.4 percent from 1985 to 1989, Synar said at a subcommittee hearing. With the defense department facing major budget cuts department official Jeffrey a. Jones told the sub committee that the Pentagon has other priorities. Quot everyone out there wants to spend the peace dividend and we have to make some cutbacks Quot said Jones the departments director of Energy policy. A i would have to say that budget priorities mean we Are not focusing solely on  the department has already implemented the a Quick and easy conservation methods a such As replacing incandescent Light bulbs with More Energy efficient fluorescent bulbs. Quot we be been delighting for years in hundreds of projects a Jones said. A but lighting is Only 30 percent of our Energy  the department is not making an Effort to investigate All conservation options however some witnesses said. Quot the most recent report on the Federal government Energy management program reported that the department of defense deleted All expenditures for Energy conservation in fiscal year 1990,�?� said Douglas a. Decker manager of government markets for Johnson controls inc., which supplies Energy conservation systems to Federal buildings. And Calvin Stewart manager of commercial Energy services for Potomac electric Power co. In the Washington area said Federal participation in the company s rebate plan is Quot very  the program offers rebates to purchasers of More expensive but Energy efficient fluorescent bulbs