Warships with electrical failures may be unable to navigate, with the destroyers drifting at sea until power is restored, and weapons systems may be unable to function.
Will our government send peacekeeping forces into Los Angeles to confiscate weapons, restore order and rebuild the local economy?
"We must continue the administration's efforts to restore the nuclear weapons infrastructure," he said in an unclassified cover letter to the memo describing the schedule for reducing arms from now to 2012.
As Mr. Gates, who has said he intends to retire this year, presses Congress to approve this year's spending plan, he is also facing a two-pronged attack on his budget plans for future years, both from those who say he is not cutting enough and from those who want to restore programs, including weapons systems that they favor but that Mr. Gates says are not necessary.
But, to date, Obama has largely avoided the issue, dropping campaign promises to impose tougher gun regulations and restore the assault weapons ban, and turning down a request from ATF to expedite gun reporting requirements as violence escalated along the U.S.-Mexico border.
More than 13 years after the police shooting of Amadou Diallo, Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly has agreed to restore a service weapon to one of the four New York City officers involved, a decision that Mr. Diallo's mother characterized as a betrayal.
Along the way, the player can pick up extra lives and items that restore health and weapon power.
Outlawed for a decade by the federal government, certain models of the AR-15 could again be forbidden if President Obama can persuade Congress to restore the federal assault weapons ban that expired in 2004, as he has indicated.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hilary Clinton said in an interview with CBS on Monday that she wanted to restore the federal assault weapons ban, a move that analysts predicted would prompt a rush to gun stores.
