Word: nuclearization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should liberals hesitate to credit the Reagan Administration for taking part in and encouraging this watershed period in superpower relations. Remember those early associations of a trigger happy Reagan with the spectacle of nuclear...
...shared national interests. Yet Reagan is far more comfortable addressing human issues than abstract interests, and Gorbachev is certainly willing to try to manipulate that inclination. When Gorbachev got the President alone in Reykjavik's cramped Hofdi House in October 1986, they spun off toward the stratosphere of abolishing nuclear weapons before crashing back to earth. When they wander off after the Bolshoi Ballet Wednesday evening to Gorbachev's dacha, they may be tempted to try again...
...just an encounter between two personalities; it is an interaction between two nations. Without a fundamental change in the clashing values and strategic interests of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., things can get only so chummy, even in a dacha. Conversely, and fortunately, the shared threat of nuclear annihilation restrains how bad relations...
...deal, the state will guarantee the company minimum annual rate increases of 5% for at least three years and possibly a decade. Thus LILCO customers will be forced to pay part of the $2.5 billion that the utility still owes for the construction of Shoreham. For the beleaguered U.S. nuclear power industry, though, there was no consolation. After a decade in which not a single new atomic power plant was ordered and 78 that were planned or under construction were canceled, the industry got its biggest and costliest tombstone...
...arms control and nuclear deterrence, ideology yields to four decades of reality in U. S.- Soviet relations. -- The lonely life of a twelve- year- old refusenik. -- Noriega thumbs his nose at the U. S. again while American officials wrangle over who is to blame for a backfiring bungle. -- The cross- border big stink about the polluted Pigeon River...