Word: nuke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most assume that the Star War system would have to deal with an all out Russian assault. Yes neither the Pentagon nor the Kremlin share this assumption. They know that given the present state of "nuke first ask questions later." the antimissile defense would have a mop-up role. And the prospect of taking out the United States in an area of American technological predominance makes she leaders in the Kremlin shiver...
...develop and deploy a cruise missile in the bell tower, and then use it to blow up the Lampoon sometime during reading period. It's 50 percent of their grade, and they were afraid they'd have to cancel the project if Adams House inspired a similar anti-nuke movement in Lowell. They're already past the date when they can drop the course without penalty...
...think he can win it, so why get your ass knocked off?" Besides, Goldwater admitted, "my heart has never been in" the fight for the new missile, partly because it seems there are plenty of nuclear weapons already. "I'm not one of these freeze-the-nuke nuts, but I think we have enough, I think [the Soviets] have more than enough, and I don't see any big sense in going ahead building...
Which is not to absolve the Reagan Administration of blame for its escalation of the military build-up, which has distorted the economy and brought no appreciable increase in security in today's nuke-dominated world. The words unclear superiority simply have no meaning in international affairs any more, and the failure to yet understand this is perhaps the most disturbing feature of Reagan's bankrupt security policy. There is no clear way to arms control, especially if there is no clear will...
...public which has been increasingly besieged with the results of surveys and questionnaires about the psychological impact of the arms race. It's quite clear the interest on the part of many of the psychiatrists doing the besieging: if the word is out that children are scared about nukes then so much the better in their effort to get us to sign on to the nuke freeze or other disarmament efforts. Their appeal is made directly to our consciences Children are held to see through the "nonsense" of the arms race, and understanding their minds, the reasoning goes, allows...