Word: preventing
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Primarily, to prevent a nuclear war between the two superpowers. Most Western strategic analysts believe that neither American nor Soviet leaders -assuming they are of sound mind -would order a surprise attack unless they were certain that the other side's capacity for a devastating nuclear counterstrike could be destroyed) By limiting the development and deployment of certain weapons, SALT negotiators have tried to preserve the strategic balance so that both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. could launch an atomic retaliation even after suffering a massive, surprise "first strike." In a sense, SALT aims at keeping the American...
...than two years of tough negotiations, a first-stage agreement was signed in Moscow by President Richard Nixon and Soviet Boss Leonid Brezhnev on May 26, 1972. One section of SALT I-as this agreement is called -sharply limited the deployment of defensive anti-ballistic missiles. The purpose: to prevent ABMs, which can destroy offensive missiles, from disrupting-or, as the experts put it, "destabilizing" -the mutual-assured-destruction balance. A second part of SALT I, dealing with offensive weapons, froze the U.S. strategic arsenal at 1,710 land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and submarine-launched missiles (SLBMS...
...unlikely to occur again. As John McLucas, the outgoing head of the Federal Aviation Administration, told TIME Aviation Correspondent Jerry Hannifin, "We cannot say that it's impossible for a situation like Tenerife to occur in the U.S. But we can say we are doing everything possible to prevent such a situation?unless somebody screws...
...approved a pilot program in Philadelphia, where options and the stocks that they are based on are traded on the same exchange. The SEC under Williams' direction will have to decide how much more expansion of options trading should be permitted, and which safeguards should be imposed to prevent market manipulation and the fleecing of unsophisticated investors...
...opinion of Universal City Studios, the movie and TV show producing arm of MCA Inc., or of Walt Disney Productions. They are suing Sony, its American subsidiary, an advertising agency, a few retail stores and one Betamax owner in a federal court in California. The complaint seeks to prevent further manufacture and sale of the Betamax, and to force impounding and destruction of Betamax tapes of programs owned by the plaintiffs. Universal, which initiated the suit and invited Disney to join, argues that taping TV shows or movies violates U.S. copyright law, even if viewers only look at their tapes...