Word: nuclearism
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...upon requires that he balance two competing messages: the U.S. must resolutely rearm to counter the Soviet threat, but it must project its peaceful intent along with its military might. Congress must be convinced that his $274 billion defense budget for fiscal 1984 ought not to be gutted. The nuclear freeze movement at home and abroad has to be countered so that the U.S. can upgrade its strategic forces and proceed with deployment of NATO missiles. And the Soviet Union needs to be persuaded that the West will not shrink from nuclear competition if its proposals for arms reductions...
...earth defense of his budget, Reagan launched the debate over U.S. military spending into an entirely different orbit. "Let me share with you a vision of the future which offers hope," he began. The President went on to suggest that America forsake the three-decade-old doctrine of deterring nuclear war through the threat of retaliation and instead pursue a defensive strategy based on space-age weaponry designed to "intercept and destroy" incoming enemy missiles. "I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause...
...There's a huge difference between being a fighter and being a leader. During the last Democratic debate, I wondered what would have happened if Clinton had been President during a critical situation like the Cuban missile crisis. Would we have had nuclear warfare because she would have tried to show how tough she is? I'd bet Obama would have acted as J.F.K. did, carefully considering his options and finding a way for the Soviets to save face and back away, thereby getting the U.S. what it wanted while preventing a nuclear holocaust. Clinton has not shown she understands...
There's a huge difference between being a fighter and being a leader. During the last Democratic debate, I wondered what would have happened if Clinton had been President during a critical situation like the Cuban missile crisis. Would we have had nuclear warfare because she would have tried to show how tough she is? I'd bet Obama would have acted as J.F.K. did, carefully considering his options and finding a way for the Soviets to save face and back away, thereby getting the U.S. what it wanted while preventing a nuclear holocaust. Clinton has not shown she understands...
...Stephen Hildreth, an expert in missile defense for the Congressional Research Service, addressing the same hearing of the House government reform committee's national-security panel, emphasized the epic technological challenge involved in building a nuclear-tipped, ocean-spanning missile. In the past half-century, only five nations - the U.S., Britain, China, France and Russia - have managed to successfully develop, and then integrate, the requisite propulsion, guidance, reentry and warhead systems. "The long history of ICBMs demonstrates that such success took considerable resources in time, funding, knowledge, infrastructure, organization and national commitment," Hildreth said. "It's this aspect...