Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...centerpiece of negotiations. The U.S., by contrast, is eager to cut a deal on reducing existing nuclear stockpiles and then worry about still-to-be-perfected space weapons. Said National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane: "It will take time to establish, much less understand, our new strategic-defense concept. That understanding is what we are after in this round...
...strategic concept has an answer to that question, a highly problematic one. The document envisions a "period of transition," starting around 1995, during which both sides would still have their offensive nuclear missiles. Those weapons would be protected by a latter-day version of ABMs called ballistic missile defense, or BMD. If American missiles and command centers were effectively guarded with radar-guided interceptors and death rays that could destroy incoming warheads, the Soviet Union would never be tempted to think that it could disarm and decapitate the U.S. with a pre-emptive strike. In principle, the Soviets could have...
Indeed, if Reagan were to relent in what now seems to be his uncompromising commitment to Star Wars, one conceivable outcome of the forthcoming negotiations might be an updated, modified version of the ABM treaty, combined with a cutback in offensive forces. What the strategic concept sees as the "period of transition" would in fact be the goal of the process. That would be a disappointment to those, like Reagan, who want to see arms control eliminate nuclear weapons from the face of the earth, but it would be a relief to others who believe that the best arms control...
...most bargaining leverage--Star Wars--may be unavailable for trade-offs, now or ever. Administration officials, including the President, have been vague about whether and under what circumstances S.D.I. would be negotiable. In Geneva, Kampelman and his colleagues will deliver lectures on the virtues of the U.S. strategic concept. Karpov and his comrades will fulminate against the evils of Star Wars. At the same time, they will probe for some sign that space weapons might be negotiable after...
...Second Vatican Council's Decree on Ecumenism declared that continuing church division "openly contradicts the will of Christ." Rahner and Fries, making liberal use of Vatican II's concept of a "hierarchy of truths," proposed a unification based upon the Bible and the doctrines from the first two ecumenical councils. That would exclude such later Roman dogmas as the universal primacy and infallibility of the Pope...