Word: nuclear
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...nearly two decades, the name Cray Research has been synonymous with supercomputers, those lightning-fast machines used for everything from locating oil deposits to designing nuclear warheads. Not only had Cray seized nearly two-thirds of the world market for number crunchers in the $5 million- to-$25 million range, but it held exclusive license to sell any machine made by Seymour Cray, who is to supercomputers what Alexander Graham Bell was to the telephone...
Afterward, Kohl denied any intention of completely getting rid of nuclear weapons, a prime fear of the U.S., which deems them necessary to offset Soviet superiority in conventional forces. But the Chancellor added, "I think we are on the right path" in demanding early negotiations...
...Secretary of State, who appeared surprised at Gorbachev's proposals as he flew out of Moscow, sought to downplay them as much as he could. He repeated that the U.S. saw no point in SNF negotiations until the imbalance between Soviet and U.S. short-range nuclear weapons is reduced by much more than 500, and he claimed that the U.S. has long been urging the Kremlin to make some unilateral cuts. On conventional forces, too, Washington asserted that Moscow was replying to American proposals...
Having lost the past two national elections armed with a platform of unilateral nuclear disarmament, the Labor Party last week launched a strike against that controversial policy. Its national executive committee overwhelmingly adopted a proposal to scrap a 1981 commitment to dismantle Britain's nuclear arsenal without any quid pro quo from other countries...
Instead, Labor will emphasize British ties to NATO while espousing the goal of ridding the world of nuclear weapons by the year 2000. Labor's new position, which must be approved at the party's annual conference in October, also asks NATO to abandon its flexible-response strategy based on possible use of tactical and strategic nuclear weapons and to renounce first use of nuclear arms...