Word: nukespeak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Britain and France by definition cannot function as an American trip wire, and U.S.-based strategic weapons might sit out a war in Europe. U.S. short-range and battlefield weapons might blunt a Soviet blitzkrieg but cannot carry the war to the Soviet homeland. In the jargon of nukespeak, some Europe-based, intermediate-range American weapons are necessary to serve the cause of "coupling" between the U.S. and its allies...
This "mystery-play" device, though not particularly clever, nevertheless pulls us through the maze-like plot and through the dizzying Nukespeak of the D.C. policymakers. Indeed, one of the strong points of Kopit's script is his dead-accurate ear for the language and argumentation of Pentagon people...
...period of weeks, even months. They fear that after absorbing half a dozen or more American strikes against missile-launching silos, command-and-control bunkers, and other critical "nodes" in the network of their political and military leadership structure, the Soviets would still be able, in the jargon of nukespeak...
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