Word: areas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Furthermore, vast retaliatory power should not be and will not be invoked lightly. There must be an ability to oppose what may be limited probings in ways less drastic than general nuclear war. A capacity quickly to help Lebanon; such power as was rapidly deployed in the Formosa area; the presence of U.S. forces in such areas as Berlin, West Germany and Korea, all contribute essentially to the peace and security of our country...
...crash on take-off or landing with the reactor operating would scatter radioactive material over a wide area...
...plumping for creation of a "denuclearized" zone to consist of Poland, Czechoslovakia, East and West Germany. In its present version-revised, according to Rapacki, to "meet Western objections"-the Rapacki Plan would begin by banning production of nuclear weapons in these four countries and restricting atomic armaments in the area to such forces as already have them, to wit, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. The next step-complete denuclearization of the area-would take place only after agreement was reached on "appropriate reduction of conventional forces," including those maintained by the U.S. and U.S.S.R. in the four countries...
...determine its own foreign policy (the NATO treaty does not commit a reunified Germany to membership). If united Germany chose to join NATO, the West would not move troops into what is now East Germany (which would bring NATO some 200 miles closer to Moscow), but would leave that area as a buffer zone...
...Democrats erred in viewing the world through "European eyes," the Republicans, while they correctly recognized the importance of Asia as a unique political area, made the mistake of regarding foreign policy as essentially military policy. Thus the fiasco of unleashing Chiang ("In an effort to create a world balance of power, we upset the local balance of power"), thus the Baghdad Pact ("Just because NATO worked in Europe, people thought the idea best for every region"), thus the utopian SEATO pipe dream ("We've armed an awful lot of people in Asia who would never think of firing...