Word: nuclear
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USUALLY a summit, like the one between President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev last week, would seem momentous. Beyond the standard media hype accorded such events, this summit seemed to solidify the rapproachment between East and West. The two leaders signed the historic nuclear arms treaty negotiated at their last meeting. The criticism voiced by each leader about the other's country that has plagued previous summits was remarkably muted...
Environmentalists and engineers know that hydrogen would make a better jet fuel than the standard aviation kerosene. In its liquid form, hydrogen packs more energy per pound than any other non-nuclear fuel and, burning, produces a plume of H2O. But there are major drawbacks, including cost. Extracting hydrogen from water or natural gas and cooling it to -423 degrees F make the fuel many times more expensive than kerosene, which goes for about...
Ronald Reagan came to office pledging to be radically different in dealing with the Soviet Union. He disparaged detente. He criticized arms control. He assailed the three-decade-old doctrine of nuclear deterrence...
...renewed era of just that -- detente. He was reaffirming the central role of arms control as the coin of the realm when the globe's two ideological adversaries sit down to bargain. And he was working toward a new arms deal that would go well beyond the medium-range nuclear treaty that the Senate ratified last week to stabilize nuclear deterrence, not abandon it. Thus Reagan has shown yet again, more emphatically than any of his postwar predecessors, that four decades of accumulated realities have given a continuity to Soviet-American relations that even the most ideological of Presidents cannot...
...Foreign Relations Committee, he stands at a crucial thoroughfare. Again and again, he has turned the path of legislation and confirmation into his private turnpike -- pay Jesse's toll or wait forever. Last week he was at it again. In an effort to stall the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces agreement, he even questioned Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's authority to sign the treaty...