Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan campaigned on a Republican platform that explicitly called for the restoration of American military superiority. A year after the election, in November 1981, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger still termed a buildup "a necessary prerequisite" to negotiations. The idea of "negotiating from strength" is sound, and there is a superficial logic to the Weinberger position. But aside from its debatable starting premise that the U.S. is now inferior, that position spells trouble on two counts. First, regardless of what "net assessment" he or any military analyst might make about the Soviet-American balance, Weinberger's Soviet counterpart, Dmitri Ustinov...
...superpower's margin of safety is the other's sense of being inferior and threatened. There can be no such thing as a one-sided buildup. One way or another, there will be competition. The only question is whether the competition will be ameliorated and regulated by arms control...
...study found 2,3,7,8T, a highly toxic form of dioxin, in the edible parts of fish in amounts twice as high as the level established by the Food and Drug Administration as a "level of concern." Environmental officials contend that the buildup of the poison in fish over time, a process known as bioaccumulation, poses a long-range, if not immediate, health hazard. Warned Adamkus: "This is going to be a ticking bomb for human beings if it is accumulated over the years." The sample fish in the study were bottom feeders, such as carp and catfish, which...
...first propaganda salvo came from Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, Chief of the Soviet General Staff. In a rare interview, Ogarkov bluntly described the consequences of any NATO missile buildup as "very sad, very bad." The Soviet Union, he told the New York Times, would have to respond to a NATO nuclear attack by striking back directly at the U.S. Declared Ogarkov: "If the U.S. would use these missiles in Europe against the Soviet Union, it is not logical to believe that we will retaliate only against targets inEurope...
...with MIRVs was taken by President Johnson and was made irrevocable in the Nixon Administration. We proceeded because in the climate of the Viet Nam period we were reluctant to give up the one strategic offensive program that was funded with which to counter the rapid Soviet missile force buildup; because we doubted that the Soviets could achieve accuracies to threaten our missile force in the foreseeable future; and because the Soviets ignored our hints to open the subject of a MIRV ban in the SALT talks. Whatever our reasons, there can be no doubt that the age of MIRVS...