Word: nuclearization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Winning ratification may take all of Reagan's persuasive power. But an INF treaty, while no panacea, is the essential building block for any further progress. Future hopes for a move away from the ghastly specter of nuclear war will be riding on the Senate debate...
...gave Deng a good look in the eye and said, "For Christ's sake, Deng, what do you want, a safe nuclear war?" But he still didn...
LAST WEEK, the United States and the Soviet Union reached an "agreement in principle" to eliminate a whole class of nuclear weapons and the White House announced that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev would sign a treaty in Washington this fall. Already politicians and even some of the experts who should know better have begun hailing the agreement as an historic breakthrough...
...left a stormy summit with Kennedy thinking the American leader was a vacillating and indecisive man. Many historians argue that this experience led Khrushchev to believe he could place missiles in Cuba without worrying about an American response. Indirectly, but yet importantly, the 1961 summit almost led to a nuclear...
Worst of all, an American president may someday end up where Reagan almost tread last October. At the summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, Reagan almost agreed to dramatic cuts in long-range nuclear weapons in exchange for limits on American space defense plans. Regardless of whether one believes in the promise of SDI, the picture of an aging president, unfamiliar with nuclear strategy, in free-form negotiations with the Soviets is a frightening...