Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Union has been engaged in a "massive military buildup since 1965," he added, saying that many new military systems, including ballistic missiles, intercontinental bombers, and aircraft carriers, are ready for testing and production, and that these new systems will continue to open a "window of opportunity...
...layman, it was nothing more than a dusted-off version of an idea Brezhnev first offered in a speech in East Berlin more than two years ago when he was still trying to thwart NATO'S decision to install new weapons in response to the Soviet buildup of SS-20 missiles aimed at Europe. Brezhnev, who was making his first trip to the West since the December 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, had been successfully upstaged by Ronald Reagan. Concluded a State Department official: "The Soviets found themselves playing catch...
Another urgent need-which is as much the Europeans' responsibility as the U.S.'s-is an all-out, sustained buildup in conventional forces. The Western democracies will probably never be able to match the Soviet bloc in conscripted military, but by substantially narrowing the gap, NATO might some day be able to deter the armored legions of the Warsaw Pact without having to rely quite so much on the threat of using the nuclear equalizer. With the viability of nuclear deterrence against nonnuclear aggression already in doubt, the less that concept is belabored, the better...
...teach-ins generally did not address the complexities of the strategic struggle with the Soviet Union, or that country's own massive buildup of nuclear weapons. Yuri Kapralov, a counselor at the Soviet embassy, told a crowd in Boston: "I wish your leaders would talk as clearly and forcefully for peace as ours do." Said Jeffrey Knopf, a Harvard junior: "We're simply asking the Government to call the Soviets' bluff. The U.S. hasn't even matched the Soviets' willingness to talk...
National security and military vigilance have an unquestionably vital importance, especially today. Taxpayers should know, however, the real cost of a $1.5 trillion defense buildup. A tradeoff exists: while fares on the MBTA have tripled in the last year, the entire MBTA budget ($60 million) equals less than the cost of three F/A-18 fighter planes (1366 are planned). In the end, political support for economic conversion does not amount to a choice of butter over guns. The question is of civilians demanding the right to participate in the decision of how many guns will replace their butter. In struggling...