Word: rearmament
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...Even if a "good" arms-control agreement could be reached-one that lived up to the various desiderata of rolling back Soviet forces and allowing the U.S. to surge forward with its rearmament-there would still be reason for wariness about signing such a thing. Arms control inevitably induces a naive giddiness among Americans about the superpower relationship; it provides an alibi for not spending enough on defense. In that sense, arms control is ipso facto...
Taken together, these eight hallmarks of Reagan's approach hurt his efforts at arms control and rearmament alike...
...would not be impossible. Angry as the Soviets are at Reagan, they are realistic enough to know that he might be around for another term and that he might yet succeed in mustering political support for much of his rearmament program-especially if he adopts an approach to arms control that is seen as designed to succeed rather than suspected of being guaranteed to fail. He does have some bargaining power, in the MX and cruise missile programs particularly. It is a question of whether he is prepared to use it realistically...
...Soviet threat. It is the driving force behind the Administration's major rearmament program and NATO's embattled effort to base nuclear missiles in Western Europe. So, as the 1984 defense budget heads toward a showdown in Congress and Deployment Day for Europe's new missiles approaches, the Pentagon last week once again emphasized in stark terms the menacing force the West must counter. "The facts are clear," warns a new Defense Department document. "The lengthening shadow of Soviet military power cannot be wished away or ignored...
Maxam has been active in efforts to half nuclear rearmament, but it was the combination of the threat of nuclear welfare and the possible surveillance of the films' sponsors that sparked his concern...