Word: nuclearization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nasty falling-out between normally amicable allies was the result of renewed German demands that the U.S. open talks with the Soviet Union on reducing Europe's short-range nuclear weapons, nearly all of which are deployed on West German soil. At one point, Genscher complained that his country would bear the brunt of a Soviet attack. An exasperated Cheney interrupted Genscher: "Look, if the flag goes up, we're all going to be obliterated, so we don't need to hear any of that...
Nonetheless, Chancellor Helmut Kohl did not back down, and last week formally proposed negotiations with Moscow. In the U.S. view, the German demands threaten the entire NATO strategy of nuclear deterrence. For 40 years NATO has relied on nuclear weapons to offset the Warsaw Pact's overwhelming superiority in conventional arms. The backbone of its land-based tactical nuclear force consists of 88 U.S.-made Lance launchers...
Arms Control. At the Reykjavik summit in 1986, Reagan stunned many of his advisers and allies by embracing the elimination of all nuclear weapons, a move that would expose Western Europe to the Warsaw Pact's overwhelming numerical superiority in troops and tanks. Bush has expressed far less enthusiasm for nuclear-weapons reductions and has suggested they may have to be conditioned on cuts in Soviet conventional forces...
...chemists, toiling in virtual anonymity. But B. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann came last week to Washington as heroes, visionaries and scientific superstars. With a mob of reporters following along, the thermodynamic duo marched onto Capitol Hill to tell Congress how their simple tabletop experiment had generated fusion, the nuclear reaction that powers the sun. Displaying slides filled with complex equations, wielding electronic pointers and pulling a mockup of their apparatus from a plastic shopping bag, the bespectacled researchers mesmerized the members of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology with an account of how their device produced more...
...temperatures could change the world forever by providing a source of virtually limitless power. Moreover, the process would generate no pollutants -- not even carbon dioxide, which many scientists fear is warming the globe in a greenhouse effect. A fusion plant would give off much less radiation than do conventional nuclear-power generators. And it would essentially run on seawater. Any scientist who managed to harness fusion would be guaranteed a Nobel Prize for Physics (and probably Peace as well), untold riches from licensing the process and a place in history alongside Einstein and slightly above Edison. Any scientist who confirmed...