Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NATO summit meeting, President Bush asserted traditional U.S. leadership with his proposals for an accelerated timetable of reductions in conventional arms. But he was forced to bow to West German demands that the alliance postpone a decision on deploying a new U.S. tactical missile to modernize NATO's nuclear arsenal...
...interested in . . . the common ideological heritage of mankind." This passage, almost a throwaway line amid the references to Hegel and the main strands of Fukuyama's argument, stands out nonetheless. It will be particularly embarrassing when "post-history" produces its first ugly spectacular, whether it is a nuclear war between two backward and strange- thinking countries that never cared much for Karl Marx or Adam Smith, or an ecological disaster that is beyond the micromanagement of the technocrats who Fukuyama predicts will inherit the earth...
Tipped with twelve nuclear warheads and carrying a price tag of $26.5 million each, the Trident II submarine-launched missile is supposed to give the U.S. the ability to destroy Soviet ICBMs still nestled in their silos. But hopes for the Trident's scheduled deployment in 1990 were set back last week when the weapon exploded during a test firing on the open sea. It was the second failure in three attempts; embarrassed Navy officials admitted that the probable reason for the misfires was a design flaw that should have been corrected on the drawing board...
Guru Ma claims to be the channel through which these spirits speak to earthbound mortals. Despite their warning that the U.S. will suffer a nuclear attack in October this year, "America the Vulnerable," she grumbles, has not even "seen fit to have an ABM system in place...
...that suffering, new ideas had been born, from the technologies of radar, sulfa drugs, jet aircraft and nuclear energy to the concepts of collective security, the Atlantic alliance and the United Nations. New horrors, almost beyond description, now had to be given names: fire storm, radiation, holocaust. But other terms suggested rays of hope: jeep, airlift and the symbol of three dots and a dash: V for victory...