Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BUSH'S DECISION TO remove battlefield nuclear weapons from Western Europe makes sense. For a long time, those weapons have caused friction between the U.S. and allied countries who do not want missiles on their soil and nuclear-armed ships in their ports. The large numbers and decentralized operation of tactical nukes create the risk of accidental firings and terrorist strikes...
...STRONG, MOBILE, conventional military force should be an essential part of the new American form of deterrence. Removing tactical nuclear weapons from the battlefield makes local wars more likely...
...change, however. Scientists are learning to look past the myth, superstition and ritual that often conceal the hard-won insights of indigenous peoples. Sometimes the lessons have come in handy: during the gulf war, European doctors treated some wounds with a sugar paste that traces back to Egyptian battlefield medicine of 4,000 years...
...past three years B.C.C.I. has brokered and financed the sale of Astros II battlefield multiple-rocket launchers from Brazil to both Iran and Iraq. The enterprise has also sold Chinese Silkworm missiles to both countries. A spokesman for Avibras Industria, maker of the Astros rocket system, concedes sales to Iraq but denies any sales to Iran or any deals involving B.C.C.I. A spokesman also allows that the company received "insignificant" financing from the Brazilian B.C.C.I. bank that was used for "domestic purposes...
...been physically possible for the junta to launch strategic weapons, it would have done them no good in putting down internal resistance: the missiles are aimed at foreign targets, and there would have been no time to reprogram them. Had the junta tried to use tactical or battlefield nukes, they would probably have faced the same internal military resistance that kept Soviet tanks from moving against Boris Yeltsin. As it turned out, President Bush later told reporters gathered at his vacation home in Kennebunkport, Me., that U.S. intelligence detected no signals or movements indicating "a nuclear threat of any kind...