Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That still was partly true for Ronald Reagan in 1987, particularly when he joined Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev this month for the grand rituals of signing away all the world's intermediate-range nuclear missiles. Nonetheless, this was a disappointing year for the President, who turned 76 and underwent three new bouts of surgery. Although he remained in the spotlight, he lingered there largely as a victim, a passive witness to the erosion and disintegration of his own fading Administration...
...WALK IN THE WOODS From Yale, Lee Blessing's witty and provocative two- hander, debating, of all things, nuclear disarmament, via the Geneva chats of a Soviet and a U.S. negotiator...
...MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB by Richard Rhodes. The best account to date about the ideas, politics and people responsible for the nuclear age -- to say nothing of the Age of Anxiety...
...world at large, Gorbachev has helped nudge his country and Ronald Reagan's off the path to nuclear destruction. True, the treaty scrapping intermediate-range missiles that was signed at the Washington summit is only a small diminution of the arms race. But it is a beginning, made possible in part by Gorbachev's acceptance of verification procedures that no previous Soviet leader would countenance. The treaty just might lead to a more significant reduction in long-range nuclear weapons this year...
Going forward to Moscow is now in the President's plans, and he dares hope for some progress on a treaty that will begin to reduce strategic nuclear missiles. Just as Reagan still wants Gorbachev to savor the America that lies beyond Washington, the General Secretary extolled Moscow and the great Russian land. "I had hoped for a few extra days for him to see this country," Reagan said. "It just did not work out. He said that he would like to come back and see some of the country. I made it plain to both of the Gorbachevs that...