Word: deterent
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...deck. He stayed chipper through a precision bombing run that nearly jolted him out of his white-draped deck chair. Addressing the Constellation's 5,000 officers and crew later, Reagan reaffirmed his pledge of "a 600-ship Navy, a Navy that is big enough to deter aggression wherever it might occur. Let friend and foe alike know America has the muscle to back up its words." Then he queued up with enlisted men for steak and vegetables in the mess, and afterward pronounced his entire visit "a Yankee Doodle...
...people as a regular hydrogen bomb ten times its size, and yet cause less damage to nearby buildings (see diagram). U.S. military planners say that small neutron warheads installed on howitzer shells or Lance missiles, which have ranges of 20 and 70 miles, respectively, are the best way to deter or counter the most feared conventional attack by Soviet forces: a massive tank assault across Central Europe. (Warsaw Pact countries have 44,000 tanks compared with NATO'S 11,000.) Said the President: "This weapon was particularly designed to offset the great superiority that the Soviet Union...
...issue is nothing less than how best to deter a Soviet nuclear attack on the U.S. The complexities are so tangled that they have preoccupied Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger almost from the day last January that he moved into the E Ring of the Pentagon, and they have given countless anxious moments to Commander in Chief Ronald Reagan as well. But the legislative timetable permits no further delay. So, before Congress breaks for its monthlong August recess, the Administration hopes to disclose what kind of missile and bomber forces it proposes to deploy to maintain U.S. retaliatory capacity...
Repeated Soviet warnings had failed to deter Polish leaders from calling the congress and choosing delegates in the freest elections the country has seen since the Communists consolidated their power in 1947. Under the new rules, nominations could come up from the rank and file as well as down from the leadership, and the final voting was done by secret ballot...
Meanwhile, B.N.O.C. has now offered to trim the cost of its crude by $2, to $37.25 per bbl., in order to deter customers from seeking even cheaper deals elsewhere...