Word: deployable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mission for the troops except as a symbolic presence. George Ball, who was Under Secretary of State under Kennedy and Johnson, expresses the dilemma that such a situation creates: "God knows we might have learned from our tragic Viet Nam fiasco that, as a great power, we should deploy our troops only where they are vitally needed and it is clear they can be effectively used ... [otherwise] their bitter plight will exhibit not America's strength but its impotence...
...against any part of Cuba, we must agree now that we will schedule that prior to the time these missile sites become operational," said Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. In the talks, the transcript reveals that the administration's strongest concern was whether these sites could be used to deploy missiles within a two week period. During these meetings, however, the administration agreed on action which eventually succeeded in forcing the Soviets to remove the missiles: A U.S. blockade of Cuba, and Kennedy's public vow that the United States was willing to risk...
MOSCOW--The Soviet press yesterday reported without elaboration that preparations were under way to deploy nuclear missiles in East Germany and Czechoslovakia...
Almost simultaneously, Warsaw Pact Commander Marshal Viktor Kulikov, speaking on the eve of a Soviet bloc foreign ministers' meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria, outlined the retaliatory measures Moscow is prepared to take in the event of deployment. Kulikov vowed that the Soviets would "deploy additional nuclear weapons to offset NATO'S growing nuclear might in Europe and we shall take corresponding countermeasures with regard to U.S. territory." It was another explicit warning that Moscow is prepared to introduce new missiles into Eastern Europe and mount new cruise-type missiles on refurbished submarines that could patrol U.S. coastal waters. Though...
...nuclear age. They are mobile, hard to detect, and hard to destroy. The Soviet Union knows that they offer a retaliatory potential which Russia cannot ignore. Therefore, what peaceful purpose is served by putting a cap on the number of submarines with missile that the US can deploy at any given time...