Word: deploy
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...Soviet weapon--the "fast-burn" rocket. According to the report, such a device could speed into orbit and shut down its engines before the heat-seeking sensors of SDI satellites could home in on its jetstream. The report predicts that the Soviets could "develop, produce and deploy" fast-burning rockets as early...
...problems. Five years ago, ordinary people were joining up with Communist guerrilla movements and throwing over governments. Today there are ordinary people around the world who have taken up arms to resist Communist-imposed governments in Afghanistan, Angola, Ethiopia, Cambodia and Nicaragua. That forced them and their allies to deploy 300,000 of their troops to occupy other countries. The Soviets spend some $12 billion a year around the world to assist their allies in military and economic aid: $4 billion goes to Cuba every year, Afghanistan costs them $4 billion and Viet Nam, Cambodia, Angola, Ethiopia and Nicaragua take...
...this month National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane astonished many arms-control experts by announcing on NBC's Meet the Press that wide-open testing and even development of the space-based Strategic Defense Initiative, as Star Wars is formally named, is "approved and authorized" by the ABM treaty. "Only deployment (of SDI) is foreclosed," McFarlane claimed. This was an abrupt reversal of U.S. policy. Previously, everyone had assumed that Article V of the treaty meant what it said: the U.S. and the Soviet Union were committed "not to develop, test or deploy ABM systems or components." The Pentagon accordingly made...
...Weinberger skirted the question of how much is enough and offered no suggestions about the best way to deploy U.S. forces to counter Soviet military might. He failed to address questions that are being asked by military experts, such as whether the U.S. really needs to float a 600-ship Navy or whether it should concentrate more on building up its ground forces against a power that is essentially landlocked...
...President is aware that it could be destabilizing if you give one side a shield that the other could not penetrate, and therefore that side would be safe to launch a war behind it. He has said that if we find that we can do this, before we deploy we would share it with the world. What kind of world would it be if the Soviets get this without the slightest intention of sharing it with anybody...