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...Only two months ago, New Zealand denied the U.S. destroyer Buchanan permission to call at its ports when similar assurances were withheld, with the result that joint maneuvers with New Zealand were canceled by the U.S. State Department , officials quickly denied that Peking had received the sort of no-nuke pledge that had been denied to Wellington. "Our policy on ship visits remains the same," said Spokesman Edward Djerejian. "We will neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons on board our ships." But sources conceded that an implicit understanding had probably been reached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: No Nukes in Shanghai, Please | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Per H. Jebsen, | Title: Eat Crow, Yuppies | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Campus Cold Warriors Relax | 3/14/1985 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speaking His Mind | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arms (Out of) Control | 11/29/1984 | See Source »

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