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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ronald Reagan. But it isn't going to happen. Nuclear weapons aren't going to be abolished, and they're not going to be uninvented. Moreover, nuclear weapons have helped to keep the peace for 40 years. The other myth is that we're going to render nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete" ((a favorite Reagan phrase)) with a perfect defense ((the Strategic Defense Initiative)). Both myths have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with Richard Nixon | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

Actually, no wait a minute. Maybe. No, actually, yes. NO. MAYBE. YES. Three words. What did they mean when used as rhetorical bludgeons to render final verdicts on other words that came before or after them because of the manic tyrannical musings of the Hitlerian author...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Brain-Addled Air Junkies | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

...classic traditionalist argument against feminism is that there are certain inalienable aspects of womanhood which render moot arguments favoring a strict equality of the sexes. One such facet of feminity, of course, is the woman's ability to carry and give birth to children. This is the one conservatives use to defend their resistance to women leaving the home for the workplace. They argue that the bonds that develop between mother and child know no laws that humans may construct among themselves: "The forces that are at work here are not to be reduced to using the strength and power...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: Mommie Dearest: | 4/7/1987 | See Source »

Rain accumulated on Soldiers Field during Friday night and early Saturday, forcing officials to render the site unsuitable for play. Ohiri Field was available as an alternate site, but no one could be contacted to reline the playing area...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rained Out | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...phase of their trajectory. In addition, a network of sensors, reconnaissance and battle-management stations would be created. The purported danger of this system is that it would not be effective against the currently existing number of Soviet missiles, but would be sufficient, after that number is cut, to render the U.S.S.R. unarmed for all practical purposes. It is also possible that offensive nuclear space-to-ground missiles and offensive space-to-ground laser weapons could be hidden on the hundreds of space stations contemplated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Arms and Reforms | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

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