Word: nonnuclear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Three sailors -- and $4 million worth of nonnuclear missiles -- on the U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower were washed away by heavy seas near Cape Hatteras; only two of the men were recovered...
...desire to dominate its neighbors: "We don't think in terms of dominance, we don't think in terms of spheres of influence. The right direction was what Gandhiji, Mahatma Gandhi, gave us. I see India today as being one of the prime movers toward a nonviolent, nonnuclear world...
Despite pressure from Jesse Jackson's supporters, Dukakis refuses to renounce the current NATO doctrine that threatens the first use of nuclear weapons if a Soviet invasion overwhelms Western Europe. Instead, Dukakis speaks of the need to build up NATO's capacity for "winning" a nonnuclear war. Such talk understandably unnerves European allies, who know the horrors of wars being waged on their territory. But aside from the unartful language, Dukakis' goal makes sense: enhancing NATO's strength could deter a conventional war or, if that failed, raise the threshold at which nuclear weapons might be used...
...predicting that the I.R.A. would win the conflict. Livingstone defied Kinnock by demanding that Britain cut its defense budget and withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. By warning of a civil war within the party, he embarrassed Kinnock into dropping plans for a review of Labor's nonnuclear defense policy...
...talking about the nuclear warheads that are the property of the U.S.A.," Akhromeyev said. "The Federal Republic of Germany is a nonnuclear state and does not have its own nuclear weapons...