Word: deployment
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...submarine-based ballistic missiles and aircraft. But proliferating cruise missiles presented more difficulty. The U.S. at one point thought it had Moscow's agreement to leave sea-launched cruise missiles out of the treaty; each side would merely make "politically binding" declarations of how many it intended to deploy. Last week the U.S. essentially got its way when the Soviets agreed to a separate declaration outside the main treaty that would limit each side to 880 SLCMs...
...complete ban on MIRVed missiles would give both nations a chance to reverse what many defense experts consider a classic case of shortsightedness: the Nixon Administration's decision to deploy MIRVs in the first place during the 1970s, which prompted the Soviets to follow suit rapidly. Multiple warheads seemed an inexpensive way to expand the U.S. nuclear force. But what strategists overlooked was the fact that the large number of warheads packed onto a small number of missiles make them a tempting target for a first strike. In a surprise attack, an aggressor could knock out as many...
...entirely to their advantage after the 1990 census. Even conservative supporters of incumbent Governor George Deukmejian have been willing to unite behind Wilson, although it means overlooking his moderate pro-choice, pro- environment, anti-off-shore-drilling stances. Wilson heads into California's TV-heavy general election ready to deploy $16 million to $20 million, while Van de Kamp and Feinstein will already have spent most of what they have raised -- about $4 million apiece...
...dozen soldiers are playing war games with their car and their cards, part of an annual exercise that once was the spectacular, costly and sometimes dangerous pride of the U.S. armed forces. The maneuvers, part of the "Reforger" exercise by which the Pentagon annually tests its ability to deploy its forces in case of a Soviet attack, no longer produce the vast, make-believe tank battles that previously raged across the fields and the flowerbeds of resentful German farmers...
Genocide theorists deploy a welter of sociological facts and half-facts to buttress their case. Among them...