Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Forward defense is the strategy the alliance wants. It is a militarily feasible strategy, but, of course, it is not the classic defensive strategy. The classic defense is one that is mobile, trading space for time. We don't have the space to pull back, so we rely on nuclear weapons. But in a Lance- - less world, we might have to relook the strategy. The risks would increase greatly simply because we would have lessened the nuclear capability available for deterrence purposes. I for one would not like to operate at that level of risk, and I don't think...
...What if the European environment changes so radically that there are no longer any nuclear weapons on the Continent at all? Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said it would be almost impossible to keep 326,000 U.S. forces in a denuclearized Europe. As the saying goes, "No nukes, no troops." Do you agree with Cheney...
...Supreme Commander of Western forces argues that despite Soviet peace initiatives, the U.S. should resist the urge to remove nuclear weapons from Europe...
...vexing problem. A score of people approached for the once coveted Pentagon job of Under Secretary for Acquisition have refused to submit to the nomination process. At the Department of Energy, five people have rejected offers to serve as the $80,700-a-year Assistant Secretary in charge of nuclear energy. "I'm having trouble persuading people with needed skills to join the Government," complains Energy Secretary James Watkins. "They might swallow the lower pay, but they balk when they learn ethics laws could bar them from returning to their old jobs...
...projects they handled while they were in Government. Under new terms that were to take effect May 16, retiring federal procurement officials, for example, would have been forbidden to make any contact with their former agency for up to two years. "Unfortunately, there aren't many monks qualified as nuclear engineers who want to become an Assistant Secretary," says Chase Untermeyer, director of the office of presidential personnel. Mark Abramson, director of the Center for Excellence in Government, says top jobs are going begging because of "low pay, anxiety over postemployment restrictions and the feeling that high Government service...