Word: nuclearization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Jimmy Carter signed the last strategic-arms treaty. Ronald Reagan denounced the treaty, then placed in key posts a cadre of ideologues who opposed bargains with the "evil empire." Only under pressure from across the Atlantic did the Reagan Administration enter talks with the Soviets on intermediate-range nuclear missiles. Similarly, when the Administration began a new round of strategic arms talks, the aim was not so much to reach an agreement with Moscow as to outflank the nuclear-freeze movement in the U.S. and to shore up congressional support for an array of new American weapons...
...pacts and parleys was rooted in his distaste for the balance of terror that arms control helps preserve and fine-tune. Whether he was fantasizing about a perfect space-based defense or the abolition of ballistic missiles, he was implicitly repudiating the system of deterrence that had kept the nuclear peace for 40 years. No wonder Mikhail Gorbachev looked so good. He took gimmicky American proposals, put his own spin on them, made them the basis of progress -- and then bowed to the ensuing applause. Reagan had his own curtain calls too. It was part of his extraordinary luck that...
...speech to Congress yesterday. Bhutto said she anticipates close ties with the U.S. She also stressed her committment to avoiding a nuclear build-up between India and Pakistan, historic rivals...
While Pakistan's history of antagonism with India has created strong popular support for a nuclear buildup, some observers say that Bhutto will pursue a policy of reconciliation with her country's historic rival...
...think the potential is there to herald in a new era of Indo-Pakistani relations," Asani said. "I don't see a nuclear build-up there in the near future...