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Supporters of SDI do not quite agree about what it is actually supposed to do. Is it meant to be a "perfect defense" or is it designed to "enhance deterrence"? President Reagan and High Frontier's Graham seem to suggest that Star Wars can render nuclear missiles obsolete by providing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Star Wars P.R. War | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

While the Chiba strikers were unapologetic about the disruption and the damage, the Locomotive Engineers' Union roundly denounced the mayhem. "We cannot tolerate the destruction of our own system, no matter what," said a union spokesman. At week's end the government created a special unit of 320 detectives to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Paralysis on the Tracks | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Despite the air raids, peasants today are safer from the ravages of large-scale fighting than they have been for years. The army's effective aerial counterinsurgency program has forced the rebels, in Morazán and elsewhere, to regroup into small units of ten to 15 fighters. The guerrillas have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: Inside Guerrilla Territory | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Even before there was a nuclear arms race, there were visionary plans afoot to end it. In 1946, while the U.S. still had a monopoly on the revolutionary new weapons, Washington proposed creating an international agency that would take control of all nuclear weapons and material, after which the U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: .Disarmament: The Elusive Quest | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Through the years, both nations have often proclaimed their fealty to a world without nuclear weapons and occasionally presented vague plans with phrases like those used by Gorbachev last week. In 1952 Benjamin Cohen, the American delegate to the U.N. Disarmament Commission, offered a set of guidelines that included "the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: .Disarmament: The Elusive Quest | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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