Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after inflation, as Reagan proposes, or closer to 5%, as President Carter and others have urged. Now the spreading suspicion that billions are being wasted is chipping away at that consensus. Most of the attention has thus far been focused on apocalyptic strategic issues: How can we best deter or fight an all-out nuclear war? Should we deploy new MX missiles in the U.S. and Pershing II missiles in Europe? But only 9% of the U.S. defense budget is spent on nuclear deterrence; the rest goes to the materiel and manpower to fight conventional battles and prevent them from...
Montefiore put the Christian's moral dilemma in succinct terms: "For the deterrent to be credible, we must be prepared to use it. But to use it would be catastrophic and immoral. The objection is formidable, but not overwhelming. If it is effective, [the force] will deter and never be used. That is the justification. To be determined to use it in response to nuclear attack has ensured so far, and I believe will continue to ensure, that there is no nuclear aggression...
...deterrence and the reality of the Soviet threat. Acting as if the real danger to Europe is not the 350 Soviet SS-20's aimed at all major military installations and cities in Western Europe, but the American Pershing II and Cruise missiles about to be deployed to deter Soviet Hawkishness, the Greens demand that West Germany refuse to allow the new American weapons on its soil. The very threat of deployment has driven the Soviets to the bargaining table in Geneva, but if NATO succumbs to the Soviet propaganda designed to split Europe from the United States, and refuses...
...where American leaders often enjoy ovations. In the mirrored ballroom of the Inter-Continental Hotel, his delivery was crisp, almost inspirational, as he told some 650 politicians, businessmen and military officers what they wanted to hear. "We are not preparing to fight a nuclear war. We are preparing to deter war. An attack on you is an attack on us." The U.S., said Bush, is ready "to consider and explore any and all reasonable Soviet offers at the negotiating table in Geneva...
...Democrats' attack on the defense budget was even harsher. Senator Edward Kennedy badgered Weinberger to say whether America's armed forces could defend the U.S. When Weinberger replied that the country's current power to deter attack is not "sufficient," the Massachusetts Senator declared, "You are the first Secretary of Defense to appear and say we are unprepared and vulnerable." Weinberger told Kennedy: "You still have a propensity not to listen." The Democratic barrage culminated when Senator Donald Riegle of Michigan called Weinberger "an ideologue" and "a fanatic" who was "damaging the national defense." Weinberger labeled Riegle...