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The United States had nuclear weapons, we had to acquire them. They had the means to deliver nuclear weapons. We did not possess such means we had to develop them. The same is true of practically all major strategic weapons systems SLBMs, MIRVs, cruise missiles etc... The Americans were the...

Author: By Antony J. Blinken, | Title: How They See It | 4/16/1983 | See Source »

This faith in literature cannot be easy to acquire. A teacher of books must learn to live before becoming good at his work, since literature demands that one know a great deal about life-not to have settled Life's problems, but at least to recognize and accept the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Odd Pursuit of Teaching Books | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi may have wanted to acquire nuclear technology. Lebanese Businessman Anthony Tannoury seemed anxious to make a lot of quick bucks. Neither succeeded, but those were the elements of what seems to have been an unusually audacious swindle.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Switzerland: Sheik Down | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

Nevertheless, when all the election figures came in a week ago last Sunday, the most surprising conclusion was there were no major surprises, no great disruption to the party system. It was true the Christian Democrats nearly equalled the landslide victory of Kontad Adenauer in 1957, they failed to acquire...

Author: By Richard M. Hunt, | Title: Germany's Elusive Turning Point | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

The Soviet Union can acquire such items of American high technology through industrial espionage, outright theft, or by purchasing them secondhand from companies in nations that are either allied with the U.S. or neutral and that got them from U.S. firms. The problem for the U.S., says Lionel Olmer, Under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Some of Our Chips Are Missing | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

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