Word: deployment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high." Britain will be nearly tripling its nuclear striking power, from 192 war heads mounted on 2,880-mile-range Polaris missiles bought from the U.S. 17 years ago, to 512 independently targetable warheads on 64 Tridents with a range of 4,350 miles. Britain has also consented to deploy 160 nuclear-tipped U.S. cruise mis siles, beginning...
...effect, Moscow had backed away from the inflexible position that it had adopted last December, when the NATO powers voted to develop and deploy a new medium-range nuclear strike force in Western Europe by 1983. The NATO force would consist of 572 Pershing II and ground-launched cruise missiles capable of striking Soviet territory. That force was aimed at countering the expanding Soviet arsenal of comparable weapons that already face Western Europe, which include 50 Backfire bombers and 200 medium-range SS-20 missiles. The Kremlin refused all offers to bargain with the Western allies on mutual reduction...
...Carter Administration's military moves, the Kremlin objects most to the decision last year deploy intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe to counter Soviet rockets aimed at the West. Says Oleg Bykov, a top specialist on the U.S. at Moscow's Institute of World Economics and International Relations: "That decision epitomizes the fact that negative forces have got the upper hand in the U.S. Those weapons are targeted on our territory...
...Administration's blunders and mixed signals, is "apprehensive, to put it mildly," about the G.O.P. leader. He adds: "He will find us extremely reluctant to rush headlong with him into a new cold war." Reagan has stated that one of his first items of business will be to deploy the neutron bomb in Western Europe, but the West Germans and other NATO allies have already put the U.S. on notice that they will permit the upgrading of U.S. nuclear weapons on their soil only if Washington remains committed to détente and to the ratification of SALT...
Following a trajectory that minimized passage over land, the shuttle would carry its hot cargo into earth orbit. Then the crew would deploy a giant mechanical arm and guide the nuclear package, together with a booster rocket, out of the cargo bay. After backing the shuttle a safe distance away, the astronauts would fire the booster, kicking the nuclear package out of earth orbit and hurtling it sunward. The booster would be detached and steered back into the cargo bay for return to earth and reuse on further missions, like the shuttle itself. Meanwhile, after a journey of about...