Word: arsenal
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...weapons rather than mutual reductions at the negotiating table. Moreover, such bargaining chips frequently survive arms control negotiations and grow into full-fledged components of America's defense system: the MIRVed warhead that originally was justified as a bargaining chip now is a familiar element of America's nuclear arsenal. A more effective signal of restraint to the Soviets would be a decision not to proceed at all with the procurement of these new weapons systems, or at least to impose a temporary moratorium on procurement. The latter approach has long been advocated by Paul Warnke, Carter's choice...
...nomination comes in the middle of a concerted effort by an assortment of Pentagon admirers to assert the cause of higher defense spending at the outset of the Carter Administration. The opening of the current push to expand America's nuclear arsenal was signaled during Ronald Reagan's campaign against former President Ford in the Republican primaries last spring. From New Hampshire to Texas, Reagan charged that the Soviet Union had opened up a dangerous numerical lead in strategic weaponry, a lead that could only be erased by substantial increases in American defense spending. After gaining his party's nomination...
...time we checked, the CHUL--a relatively democratic institution--voted 15-2 in favor of the Fox plan. Buntinx claims there is a "widespread demand" for Women's studies. If so, it is a very quiet "widespread demand." We also find it amusing that Buntinx considers Soc Stud the arsenal of democracy. Anyone who's spent 10 minutes at Harvard knows that Soc Stud is an extremely biased department. We believe that democracy is the rule of the majority, not the rule of a vociferous minority. Buntinx's letter appears to be inconsistent with this view. Dave Dorff...
Nothing can be uninvented. This tragicomic fact will dominate our lives as citizens of the Republic of Technology. While any device can be made obsolete, no device can be forgotten or erased from the arsenal of technology. While the currents of politics and of culture can be stopped, deflected, or even reversed, technology is irreversible. In recent years, Germany, Greece and some other countries have gone from democracy to dictatorship and back to democracy. But we cannot go back and forth be tween the kerosene lamp and the electric light. Our inability to uninvent will prove ever more troublesome...
...million, and are thought to be negotiating for more. Peru has a present stock of Soviet-made weaponry, which includes some 250 T-55 tanks (200 more are on order) and scores of SA-2 and SA3 antiaircraft missiles. All this comes on top of a sizable arsenal acquired since the late 1960s-including French Mirage jets, British patrol boats and U.S. transport planes-that has made Peru the leading military power on South America's west coast...