Word: attackable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Granted a reprieve, the Crimson proceeded to muddle through an equally uninspiring first overtime period, failing to generate any semblance of an attack...
...President's deliberations will be guided by the concept that has been the basis of U.S. nuclear deterrence for more than 30 years: that enough American weapons must survive a Soviet surprise attack to guarantee a devastating retaliatory strike. Pursuing that strategy, the U.S. has built a formidable triad of strategic nuclear forces: land-based ICBMs in silos, sea- based missiles aboard submarines, and nuclear bombs carried by airplanes. But over the years, the increased accuracy of Soviet ICBMs has gradually threatened the land-based leg of the triad, which consists of 450 Minuteman IIs, each carrying a single warhead...
...Bush makes up his mind, skeptical strategic experts are challenging the fundamental assumption: that land-based missiles are as vulnerable as some other experts fear. There is considerable doubt that the Soviets could actually attack U.S. ICBMs with impunity. Studies by the Pentagon suggest that even if the Soviets aimed two warheads at each U.S. silo, they could count on destroying only 65% to 80% of the ICBMs. That would leave at least 400 land- based U.S. warheads -- each packing about 20 times the destructive force of the Hiroshima bomb -- for a counterattack on the Soviet Union. Moreover, the Soviets...
...Government maintains that these chemicals pose little danger to the majority of the population, a position that consumer activists do not dispute. But small numbers of people appear to be acutely sensitive to some compounds. Sulfites, used in wine and on golden raisins, can provoke a fatal asthma-like attack...
...economies. And he seems to consider the traditional definition of security, in the form of a chain of subservient states, no longer entirely relevant. In fact, his policies indicate that he probably considers revolution or economic collapse within the rigidly controlled Soviet empire a far more plausible threat than attack from the West...