Word: nonnuclear
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...policy of opposing the installation of U.S. cruise missiles in Britain will, believes Teacher Geraldine Ellison in Norfolk, encourage the Soviets "to think we are weak." Labor also loses points for its infighting over defense. In line with the manifesto, Foot has maintained that Britain would be a "nonnuclear nation" by the end of a five-year Labor government. At the same time, the more moderate Healey was strongly implying that Britain's Polaris missiles would be retained if the Soviets failed to agree to reciprocal disarmament...
...there are limits to the sorties a satellite can make; usually it will exhaust its rocket fuel after six or seven months. When that happens, the Soviet controllers radio commands that explode the satellite into nuclear and nonnuclear components. The nonnuclear parts are allowed to sink back into the atmosphere, where most of the metal burns up in the frictional heat of reentry. The reactor is lifted with one last spurt of rocket fuel to an altitude of 500 to 600 miles, where it can drift safely for hundreds of years...
Critics joke that the battleship is so vulnerable it should be renamed the U.S.S. Sitting Duck. The Navy insists that more than ten hits by nonnuclear Soviet cruise missiles would be required to put it out of action. Reagan, noting that the New Jersey had cost $326 million to demothball, called the ship "a shining example" of "the maximum cost-effective application of high technology to existing assets...
...history. But all of these collisions fell short of the nuclear. They thereby seemed weirdly permissible: as sins, venial, not mortal. They were not, after all, the utmost we had to deal out in fatality. We did not drop what we might have dropped onto Hanoi. By this reasoning, nonnuclear bloodshed is forbearing and almost virtuous...
...Soviet bloc in conscripted military, but by substantially narrowing the gap, NATO might some day be able to deter the armored legions of the Warsaw Pact without having to rely quite so much on the threat of using the nuclear equalizer. With the viability of nuclear deterrence against nonnuclear aggression already in doubt, the less that concept is belabored, the better...