Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Actually, while acknowledging that proof of chemical warfare would make it difficult to conclude arms control agreements, Meselson expresses skepticism with the assumptions of this last, commonly held view. "You don't conclude agreements with Russia because you trust the Russians. That's not the way you make these agreements. You do it because you can detect violations," he says. "The converse of that argument is that if only the Russians are innocent of this we can trust them? That's not the way to do treaties. It never was. It never is, It's a phony argument. That...
...grandeur of the correspondent's responsibilities, however, he is usually the most unromantic of creatures. The exceptions spring to mind because they are exceptions: John Reed dying for Mother Russia, Richard Harding Davis, swaggering with his brace of pistols. Most war reporters are quieter, almost sullen-frown-ridden loners stretched out in weird hotel lounges, waiting wearily upon the return of yet more troops from yet another major offensive or the disclosure of an atrocity from yet another smooth-voiced press officer. Even those who run with rebels in the tropics must find the perils repetitious after a while...
...person or persons who assembled them may never be identified, but they were almost certainly connected in some way to the secret police of Tsar Nicholas II. The apparent motive was to discredit radical and progressive groups within Russia by making them appear dupes of alien Jewish machinations. In 1921, a reporter for the London Times found the sources from which the Protocols had been lifted. The notion of Jewish leaders plotting secretly came from a novel called Biarritz (1868) by Hermann Goedsche, a German who used the pen name Sir John Retcliffe. Most of the language and ideas...
...credit, Nicholas refused to authorize propaganda use of the Protocols once he learned they were phony. But they circulated surreptitiously in Russia and translations proliferated. In the early 1920s, Henry Ford's weekly paper, the Dearborn Independent, incorporated the Protocols in a series of anti-Semitic articles. These, including the Protocols, were published as a book (The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem) that eventually sold half a million copies. The Rev. Charles Coughlin, the radio priest, harangued his listeners about the Jewish plot...
...debate--572 yet-to-be-deployed American cruise and ballistic missiles, 243 Soviet SS-20s with three warheads each, French and British subs with 272 warheads in all, and an assortment of aircraft on both sides--can travel hundreds of miles and destroy every major target in Europe, including Russia. Tactical weapons, by definition, are short-range, low-yield nuclear devices designed for battlefield use against military targets. In contrast, strategic weapons can destroy the mainland U.S. and U.S.S.R...