Word: polarise
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With almost theatrical timing, the forces in the display paraded past the reviewing stand with progressively more sophisticated arms. The climax came with China's pride, the big missiles. The contingent was led by two short, stubby rockets that Western observers recognized as CSS-NX-4s, still experimental but...
A few days after Dalyell's disclosures, the weekly New Statesman, citing unidentified British sources, reported that Thatcher disregarded a U.S. peace initiative and decided to sink a major Argentine vessel. She first ordered the sinking of the aircraft carrier Veinticinco de Mayo, but the nuclear submarine assigned to...
Despite noted increases in body radiation content among the Micronese from nuclear testing, the United States government continues testing nuclear weaponry and delivery systems in the area. Virtually all of the U.S. inter-continental ballistic missiles, including the Polaris, Minutemen and Trident, have been tested at the Kwajalein Missiles Range...
Nowhere has Labor fallen into greater disarray than on defense issues. The party's policy of opposing the installation of U.S. cruise missiles in Britain will, believes Teacher Geraldine Ellison in Norfolk, encourage the Soviets "to think we are weak." Labor also loses points for its infighting over defense...
Challenged to clarify the difference, Foot and Healey produced a tortured compromise statement marked with internal contradictions. No sooner had it been cobbled together than it was upset by former Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan, who blasted the notion of unilateral nuclear disarmament. Polaris missiles, he declared, have "a life...