Word: nuclearism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Baird Professor of History Richard Pipes, a member of former President Ronald W. Reagan's National Security Council, said he expected the two leaders to announce a date for an agreement on strategic nuclear weapons. Pipes also said Bush might lift some trade restrictions on the Soviet Union...
...fundamental question of what is the "self" and what is the "other." One of the glories of our era is that we have witnessed the birth of global solidarity; imperfect, struggling, but nonetheless real. We see it in the creation of the United Nations, in the concern about nuclear war, in the growing worldwide resolve to protect the environment and in the struggle against AIDS...
...supporter of self-determination for Black South Africans, Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews, I find these ties, which include nuclear weapons cooperation and Israeli aid in maintaining apartheid, e.g., by giving South Africa counter-insurgency aid, repugnant. Rather than attack the messenger, Israel's friends, such as Fein, ought to heed the message. At the least, they ought to support the right of conferences, whether pro- or anti-Israeli policy, to be held at universities. Free speech is free speech, and we cannot allow the exclusion of meetings because they "would have obscured real debate." Edmund R. Hanauer Executive Director...
...build new civilizations. Technology determines the quality and quantity of the human economy. The medieval age gave way to the modern age because of the art of navigation, the invention of gunpowder and Gutenberg's art of printing. Now the modern age has come to a close because of nuclear power and electronics. I think Japan will be one of the major players that will build a new world history. It can't be done by Japan alone. Active interaction with other countries will enhance technological developments. In this respect the U.S. will remain Japan's most important partner. There...
...Berliner" speech, it was de rigueur for U.S. Presidents -- and other Western leaders -- to come and shake their fists at the Wall and call down imprecations against those who had conceived and built it. But the barrier also stood as a reminder of the limits of power in the nuclear age. Paradoxically, the Wall, despised though it was, acted as a bulwark for stability in Europe, ratifying two spheres of influence and thus maintaining the alternative of cold war to hot war. It was the most palpable evidence of a deep wound in European civilization -- and it is finally gone...