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...capacity to destroy the other? When pressed, most proponents of SDI acknowledge that perfection is probably a pipe dream, and show no intention of scrapping the nuclear stockpile. Rather, they conceive of a system that will greatly increase the Soviets' uncertainty about whether a first strike would disarm the U.S. SDI thus becomes an adjunct to nuclear deterrence rather than a replacement...

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

...free world to mount a "crusade" to cast Marxism-Leninism onto the ash heap of history, punishing Moscow's expansionism through a global counterattack on its clients, which became known as the Reagan Doctrine, and unveiling a Strategic Defense Initiative that would, at least as he conceived it, disarm the Evil Empire by dint of Yankee ingenuity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of All People | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...easy. Lebanon is chronically fractious, and the old civil-war rivals are already bickering over how to divvy up power with the Syrians gone. Nobody is talking yet about the most contentious issues facing the new parliament: how to disarm Hizballah, the militant Shi'ite group, and reconfigure the 1943 power-sharing agreement known as the National Pact. The task of uniting the country has fallen to Saad, a shy Georgetown University graduate who makes no secret that he would rather be scuba diving or riding his Harley. "Watch me," he told TIME in a recent interview at the wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beirut's Great Mystery | 6/1/2005 | See Source »

...simply because of his nuclear program, but because of what he's done to his own people. The only way to achieve any meaningful change, Becker asserts, is to remove Kim from power. "With the right political will," he writes, "the world could quickly agree on remedies to disarm a criminal state." Perhaps, but after years of trying, the best diplomatic efforts of the U.S. and North Korea's neighbors have done nothing to demilitarize a dictator who could level Seoul with conventional weapons alone. It's not as if the world lacks reasons to defang Kim. It just lacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Deadly Dictator | 5/14/2005 | See Source »

...from Fonda--admits there is some skepticism when one of the most famous white women in the world speaks to minority families about sexual health and gender equality. "People definitely come with perceptions," says Ozumba. "But because this is so obviously personal for her, she's been able to disarm the stereotypes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Being Jane | 4/3/2005 | See Source »

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