Word: reductionism
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What was once said of Wagner's music also applies to the logic of the agreement between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to stand naked before each other's nuclear missiles: it's better than it sounds. To feel safe, both superpowers must be confident they can retaliate against...
Last week's Moscow summit had been billed as the final act of the cold war. But within hours after Air Force One touched down at Sheremetyevo Airport, it was clear that the last vestiges of East-West tension had dissolved long before George Bush's arrival. In what both...
The scene will be familiar and, partly for just that reason, comforting. The two Presidents will take their seats at a table in the St. Vladimir Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace and sign a treaty concluding a nine-year negotiation known as the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks. Television will...
That's what this latest treaty does. It limits, if that's the word, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. each to 1,600 intercontinental bombers and missiles carrying 6,000 thermonuclear charges. That is still a superfluity of death and destruction, but it is also roughly a 30% reduction in...
Previous Governors spent years postponing the hard choices the state must make, but Republican Pete Wilson, who took office in January, is determined to put California's rickety fiscal house in order. To raise revenues, he called for $7 billion in new sales and alcohol taxes as well as higher...