Word: nuclearization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...material from Time Inc.'s extensive library. "One of the most useful things was having access to TIME's remarkable research files," says Sullivan. In addition, Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott, an authority on arms control, topped off the show with a video essay linking European defense to global nuclear deterrence...
...Even as the U.S. and the Soviet Union discuss deep cuts in nuclear missiles, a different Soviet threat is appearing on a new front. Last Thursday, two newly modified Tu-95 "Bear" long-range bombers, flying out of Siberia, were spotted winging toward Alaska's southwest coast. Two F-15 interceptors scrambled to put a "cap" on top of the aircraft, until the bombers turned back 115 miles from U.S. territory. On May Day, two high-flying Bears closed to within 50 miles of Alaska; then an AWACS surveillance plane picked up two more Soviet bombers coming...
...sometimes independence from specific departments causes problems. Professor of Astronomy and Physics William H. Press says he planned to co-teach a course called "Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear War, Strategic Defense, and Arms Control" at North House last semester. But when physics students were unable to get concentration credit for the course, he decided to teach it in the Physics Department...
...water is believed to have been shipped to Switzerland before being passed on to India, which is thought to be thirsty for deuterium oxide for its two reactors and four nuclear power plants. Norway will not export heavy water to India because that country has not signed the 1968 Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Asked about the missing liquid, Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi said, "We have got enough heavy water of our own. We don't need to get it from outside...
Norway has no nuclear power stations and prohibits nuclear weapons on its territory in peacetime, but its no-nukes policy has failed to protect it from nuclear scandal. Last week the Norwegian Foreign Ministry confirmed that some 15 tons of the country's heavy water was diverted in 1983 to an unknown destination. Prized for its purity, Norwegian heavy water, or deuterium oxide, is used as a coolant in nuclear reactors and to produce plutonium, an ingredient in nuclear bombs...