Word: mutually
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...Soviet missiles come to the 21-sq.-mi. Wyoming strip, the closer they come to each other. When the first finally explodes just above its target, its apocalyptic power is turned against fellow Soviet missiles. Its blast, and those of any succeeding warheads that manage to detonate, would cause mutual missile annihilation known in the lexicon of strategic warfare as Fratricide...
...activity of the other and to see an attack coming. It also puts an almost inconceivable burden on the ability of a leader to react decisively yet wisely in a matter of minutes. That is why the superpowers have preferred to stick with a concept of stability posited on "mutual survivability," whereby each side could absorb a nuclear attack and then retaliate with devastating force. Dense Pack deployment of the MX would be a step toward a condition of "mutual vulnerability," in which each side would have an extra incentive to shoot first rather than retaliate, and that would...
Nakasone summed up his current attitude toward the U.S. for TIME last week. Said he: "The most important thing is to have close and human relations between the two leaders of our countries." On mutual defense matters Nakasone was even more cordial. The U.S., he said, "is the lance, and the role of Japan is the role of the shield. The U.S. and Japan must complement each other in defense...
What Snow called a "gulf of mutual incomprehension" yawns ever wider, according to Stanford Engineering Professor James Adams, who describes the problem as a conflict between the "techs" (engineers and scientists) and the "fuzzies" (liberal arts students): "The techs are considered by the fuzzies to be nerds. The techs, in turn, consider the fuzzies as only marginal at reaching logical conclusions, probably unable to keep their bicycles in operation and completely unable to support themselves after graduation...
After World War II, members of the victorious Alliance recognized that open trade, which creates global interdependence, would reduce the likelihood of international conflict. The world's trading partners formed GATT so that they could meet at occasional conferences to make mutual commitments to tariff reductions. Nations agreed to lower their trade barriers and to accept increased imports in exchange for the opportunity to expand exports...