Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Proponents of the ban, including a Brookline based anti-smoking group, said distributors are luring young children into smoking, which the U.S. Surgeon General has ruled a health danger...
...Defense Guidance report, in which the Pentagon set forth U.S. military strategy for the next five years. Its missile-rattling conclusions made front-page headlines in the New York Times just as Ronald Reagan was embarking on a European tour designed to reassure allies who are concerned about the danger of an atomic showdown and Reagan's hawkish instincts. The disclosures undercut a Memorial Day announcement about the beginning of new Soviet-American arms-control talks and served as an unwelcome counterpoint to a sobering report by an international commission on disarmament...
...reason is that if one side believes the other has superiority, it may be more cowed in the possibility of a diplomatic confrontation....In that sense I think there is a concern that you don't have a sense of superiority on which there is a danger of miscalculation....So I think both sides are going to, in fact prevent that from becoming as imbalanced as it has been in the past...
...show how broadly nuclear weapons could be used by the United States, especially as a deterrent to Soviet aggression in Europe. Sherwin is one of a growing number of experts who questions the effectiveness of deterrence over the long term as U.S. and Soviet nuclear arsenals bulge and the danger of widespread proliferation increases...
...danger and unrest at home were not enough for our leaders to cultivate, they have embarked on a military buildup and foreign policy which will turn the U.S. into more of an arsenal that it now is, and which is already destabilizing a volatile world. "Limited government" somehow means unlimited defense spending. The endless spending of billions of dollars on soon-to-be obsolete nuclear hardware bleeds the economy and accelerates an already frenetic arms race. By contrast, conventional forces and supplies are either neglected or supplemented by overly-sophisticated and insufficiently reliable material...