Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then come the Navy's new SSN-21 attack submarine ($2.9 billion for just the first one ordered); the Army's proposed Forward Area Air Defense system, a complex of sensors, guns and missiles to provide air cover on the battlefront ($60 billion); and the bills for two more nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, approved by Congress last year ($20 billion with escort ships and airplanes). The Administration is also asking for upwards of $5 billion a year for the Strategic Defense Initiative...
...National Park Service practice of countering every budget cut with a proposal to reduce visiting hours at the nation's monuments -- knowing full well that Congress would never allow it. The Navy's version was to propose delaying a 4.3% military pay raise and killing both a Trident nuclear missile-firing submarine and two Los Angeles-class attack submarines, all congressional favorites. Carlucci coldly ordered the Navy to drop that ploy and instead mothball 16 aging frigates. Secretary of the Navy James Webb resigned in protest...
...Carlucci scoffs at such sniping. Says he: "My phone is ringing off the hook from people on ((Capitol)) Hill who don't like my killing this weapons system and that weapons system." In fact, though, the systems he has hit -- primarily an Army pilotless plane, the Midgetman single-warhead nuclear missile and an antisatellite system -- are unpopular with either the services, Congress or both...
...change in doctrine)) reflected in force structure, and I do not see it reflected in your activities around the world. Until we do, it behooves us not to change our current policy.' " If the Soviets someday suit action to words, a mutual reduction in conventional forces as well as nuclear weapons could finally save both sides some serious money...
...Labor Party has lost three consecutive elections to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives, and one big reason is the opposition party's stand on defense issues. Surveys show that Labor's promise to give up Britain's nuclear deterrent unilaterally is unpopular with nearly 70% of Britons, and even gets a thumbs-down from a majority of Labor supporters. Last week Party Leader Neil Kinnock announced a change of heart. British disarmament, he said, should be accompanied by Soviet concessions...