Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said the President, fears that in any negotiations it would come under irresistible pressure to agree to a total ban on nuclear weapons in Europe. NATO forces would then have no way to beat back a possible invasion by the Warsaw Pact nations, given the Pact's superiority in conventional forces. While that advantage is impressive in numerical terms, many experts in the U.S. and Western Europe argue that both in morale and materiel, Warsaw Pact troops are highly overrated. Nevertheless, the Administration is intent upon upgrading U.S. defenses in Europe by replacing the 75-mile-range Lance with...
...feeling is mutual; many West Germans suspect that any war would wreak nuclear devastation on West German territory if the U.S. fired the short-range missiles, rather than risking Soviet retaliation against American cities by launching long-range nukes against targets inside the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, there is a growing belief that some kind of compromise will be found in time to permit a show of unity at a NATO summit meeting in Brussels May 29-30. The "early" negotiations the West Germans want could be put off until next year or even later; Bonn might also agree to some...
...gathering of 1,500 physicists in Baltimore was more like an unusually hot celebrity roast. This elite clan convened a special panel to comment on the instant fame of Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann, two chemists who had dared to venture from their field into the private domain of nuclear physicists. Less than six weeks earlier, Pons, of the University of Utah, and Fleischmann, of Britain's University of Southampton, claimed to have achieved nuclear fusion, the process that powers the sun, at room temperature. Because the experiment produced much more energy than it consumed, said the chemists, it could...
...Soviet Union trying to drive a wedge into the alliance by persuading West Germany to push for the elimination of tactical nuclear weapons...
...have absolutely no intention of trying to drive a wedge between the NATO allies. But we do have a position of principle. We must begin negotiating the reduction and eventual elimination of tactical nuclear missiles. We shall in the future be even more aggressive in pursuing this goal because it is in the interest of all European nations, the Soviet Union and the U.S. Why can't we negotiate along parallel tracks on strategic weapons, conventional arms, chemical weapons and also tactical nuclear weapons? And then, later on, we shall discuss the naval forces, which is a topic the West...