Word: defended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...goal of his arms policy was "maintaining nuclear capability sufficient to deter conflict, under-write our national security and meet our commitment to allies and friends." The policy's keystone is keeping a high level of uncertainty the possibility exists that U.S. nuclear weapons would be employed to defend not only Western Europe, but the Persian Gulf. Israel, the Peoples Republic of China, Korea, or others from Soviet or "Soviet-backed" aggression...
...foreign affairs quartet, on the other hand, called for a renunciation of first use (after a buildup of conventional and second-strike retalitory forces) on the grounds that any nuclear conflict is likely to escalate and thus "involve unacceptable risks to the national life that military forces exist to defend." The Reagan Administration, as well as some West Europeans under the American nuclear "umbrella," strongly oppose any non-first-use declaration because it would allegedly lower the perceived risks to an aggressor contemplating attack. The problem is that declaration or no declaration, a no-first-use policy is the only...
...Friday that "the South Atlantic crisis is about to enter a new and dangerous phase, in which large-scale military action is likely." The showdown had indeed seemed inevitable by the end of last week as British forces imposed their total blockade and Argentine troops dug in to defend the territory they had themselves seized by force...
...outline suggests a standard scenario of Armageddon aftershock. Bikers have terrorized many a decent citizen in movies over the past three decades. And the sociopathic superman has emerged to defend them in distinguished westerns (John Ford's The Searchers) and easterns (Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo). What Miller has done here is create a milieu as dense and tangy as Tolkien's Middle Earth or Céline's demimonde. This is Australia as the Down Underworld, where character is revealed in the gradations between good and awful. Drawn in vivid cartoon strokes, this menagerie...
...over the past 1 5 years we have always stuck to the alliance's double-track philosophy, namely by maintaining a sufficient capability and will to defend ourselves while being open for negotiations and agreement. It was not just West Germany that negotiated with the Soviets. It was first Nixon. If you analyze the Reagan Administration's strategy in depth, you will find that it follows that double-track philosophy as much as we do. I would like, by the way, to remind you that just 40 kilometers from here, great masses of Soviet tanks are combat ready...