Word: potentionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under this theory the U.S.S.R. "pays" by cutting its land-based warheads in half, and its most potent ICBMs and its ballistic missile throw weight by two-thirds. But the Kremlin can then "buy" reductions in the menacing new weapon ry the U.S. intends to deploy later in the decade. For example, says Rowny, while the Trident II program will go forward in any event, the Soviets might face twice as many Trident II warheads without a START treaty...
...during a crisis) and have ranges shorter than a number of Soviet missiles that do not show up in the U.S.S.R.'s tally. The Kremlin gives equal weight to vintage British Vulcan bombers, which are practically candidates for an aeronautical museum, and their own Backfire, one of the most potent planes in the Soviet air force. Soviet charts also equate France's S-2 and S-3 ballistic missiles with the SS-20, which has three times as many warheads and almost twice the range...
...ambivalence seemed apparent in last November's elections, when capital punishment was a potent political issue but not a decisive one. Like New York, Massachusetts this month inaugurated a Governor opposed to the death penalty. But just three weeks earlier, the legislature in Boston had once again legalized executions. Even increasingly hard-line voters in California chose an attorney general who disapproves of capital punishment...
What was once perhaps the most potent argument against capital punishment arises less often these days. Yet there is a good chance that an innocent man was hanged in England in the 1950s. And in the U.S. today, as death rows swell and the pace of executions quickens, the risks of such a mistake grow. "You know there are going to be some," warns Michael Millman, a California state public defender. Abolitionist Sanford Kadish, a leading authority on criminal law, is less worried. Says he: "The chances are exceedingly remote...
...three respects: geography makes it far easier for the U.S. to get its subs to sea and keep them there; U.S. subs are much quieter than Soviet ones and therefore harder to track and destroy in a conflict; and American SLBMs are more numerous, more accurate and altogether more potent than Soviet ones...