Word: nuclearization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course syllabus for "General Education 159: The Nuclear Age" looks pretty average at first glance--lectures, reading, the ususal...
...part of the course on nuclear strategy and modern warfare, jointly offered by the Kennedy School of Government, K-School Lecturer on Public Policy Kurt M. Campbell and Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry Paul M. Doty are planning a class visit to two major American military installations--the nuclear submarine base in Groton, Conn., and the Strategic Air Command in Omaha...
Obviously, enacting any or all of these approaches would be costly and entail hard choices. But making such decisions is a President's job. For the $3.6 billion cost of one nuclear aircraft-carrier task force, of which the U.S. already has five, the country could pay the full four-year tuitions of 90,000 private-college students. By forgoing one year's cost of living increase in Social Security benefits, the U.S. could raise the average salary of the nation's 2.3 million public schoolteachers by $3,260. The question the next President must decide is which of these...
...altitude exercises by NATO fighters, mostly F-16s, whose pilots must practice the ground-hugging tactics they would use in battle. In the past seven years, 20 F-16s have crashed in West Germany, several in populated areas and one a bare ten seconds' flying time from a nuclear power reactor near Landau. Three aircraft crashed on a single day in July. For the past three years demonstrators have protested the Ramstein show as a symbol of the low-flight issue; they marched outside the base the day before the disaster...
...information provided by Conrad probably included details on NATO troop mobilization and the location of barbed wire and antitank traps as well as the positioning of nuclear-capable artillery. Says former Army Chief of Staff General Edward C. Meyer: "With that sort of information on the Soviets, I could blow away a whole Soviet corps in wartime...