Word: assuredness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PERHAPS MORE important than the limitations of technology is the backwardness of the philosophy behind SDI. The project is mired in the Reaganesque notion of world safety through arms build-ups rather than through arms reduction. Maybe nuclear peace has been kept through the perilous Cold War by the threat...
In the new game, as in the old, deterrence is an important strategy. Submarine-based missiles, for example, should continue to be retained in order to maintain the principle of mutually assured destruction with less risk than land-based MIRVs.
Gorbachev's assessment was not much different. On Friday morning the Kremlin leader received a letter from the White House outlining the proposals. He talked them over with top advisers, including arms-control negotiator Victor Karpov and Defense Minister Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, and then took a phone call from Bush -- all...
Thus, when the Harvard men's soccer team finished last season with a 6-7 record (3-4 Ivy), Harvard fans could rest assured that this season would bring more wins.
Of greater concern to the White House is the possibility that George or Fiers -- each was below Gates on the CIA chain of command -- might implicate Gates. Nonetheless, the Senate committee has been assured by Walsh that so far his investigation has not turned up any evidence that would lead...