Word: dust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that climate, Washington seized an unexpected chance to embarrass the Soviets by publicizing the spy-dust episode. As a propaganda opportunity, it ranked with the 1976 disclosure that the Soviets were bombarding the embassy with potentially harmful microwaves, apparently in an effort to eavesdrop on communications. U.S. officials gave this account: as early as 1976, microscopic pinches of NPPD were found at the embassy. The chemical is a synthetic one concocted in Soviet laboratories and almost unmentioned in scientific literature. It has no known use except for espionage. It is odorless and, in the tiny quantities normally used, invisible...
...some officials in Washington, the episode indicated blundering by an overzealous KGB. Wide use of the spy dust would seem to be self-defeating, since the number of people spreading it would increase exponentially, from 500-odd Americans (180 of whom work at the embassy) to countless Soviet citizens with whom they have routine dealings. The Soviet government officially dismissed the U.S. charges as "absurd" and "outrageous." At a White House briefing in Los Angeles, Spokesman Larry Speakes suggested that the Kremlin's leaders, including Gorbachev, may not have known about the spy dust. There was more than a hint...
Washington charges the kgb with using "spy dust" and decides to test a new antisatellite weapon, as superpower relations grow chillier. Reagan rests up + at the ranch and braces for a taxing...
...expert on the "nuclear winter" theory, which holds that an atomic war would bring about a new ice age by raising dust that would block out the sun's rays, Alexandrov was last seen in Madrid on March 31. The Soviets have also lost an official from their embassy in Rome, Vitali Yurtchenko, who vanished without trace earlier this month. There are no signs that either man has defected to the West. Under discussion at the seminar is a plan to study the consequences of the use of nuclear weapons. The project would require a freer exchange of information than...
...dust- and commotion-free Square is no doubt good news for Square travellers. The bad news, on the other hand, is for subway riders who take the Red Line from Park to Harvard stations (you'll come to know it very well). This stretch, the latest phase of 'T' renovations, will be out of commission after 9 p.m. on weeknights and some weekends for the next two years...