Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have to rely on information released in the U.S., then I would have to agree [that there has been a buildup]. But the Soviets have had an experience that Americans have not. In World War II their country was occupied, there were 20 million casualties and great destruction. That's why they are so sensitive. The Soviet Union was surrounded by military bases after World War II. In a certain sense the Soviet Union still feels encircled...
PRESIDENT CARTER'S State of the Union address calling for a United States military buildup, draft registration and a Persian Gulf Doctrine tragically confuses machismo with determination. Carter is trying to cloak the emptiness and ineptness of his three-year-old foreign policy by relying on the political bromides that have swept generations of politicians into office. His political grandstanding obscures the fact that our present crisis is in many ways the product of our inability to enact a coherent energy policy...
...decade-long Soviet military buildup). Irritating Moscow too was the prospect that while it was not going to get most-favored-nation trading benefits from Washington, it seemed certain that Peking was going to get them. That would violate the principle of'evenhanded' treatment of the two Communist powers, which Carter had promised when he normalized relations with China...
...ceilings of 2,400 for total strategic nuclear launchers and 1,320 for launchers with multiple warheads (MIRVs). Those ceilings are too high for the liking of many arms-control enthusiasts and U.S. defense planners as well, for they permit the Soviets to continue their 17-year-old missile buildup, which in turn is forcing the U.S. into expensive countermeasures. But the Carter Administration succeeded in negotiating additional provisions that would apply the brakes to the Soviet juggernaut. The Administration has inserted into the Vladivostok framework a new ceiling for MiRVed ICBMS and a freeze on the MIRVing of various...
...such as in some future replay of the Cuban missile crisis, or perhaps over Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Yet in SALT II, the Carter Administration would have blunted that threat somewhat by limiting the proliferation of warheads. It would be better, of course, if the treaty stopped the Soviet buildup rather than merely slowing it down. A rollback would be better still -and might be a major goal of SALT III if there ever is such a thing. But just as politics is the art of the possible, SALT is the art of the negotiable, and SALT n would mitigate...