Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...folly of the bomb have erupted, occasionally prompting assuaging measures like SALT. But the current crisis has reached new levels of intensity and urgency. An American President talks of "limited" nuclear conflict. A renewed cold war atmosphere freezes the United States and the Soviet Union into intransigent positions. Russia launches escapades in Afghanistan and Poland. The bottom line of all this--more nuclear weapons that are increasingly complex and hence more prone to accidental detonation. This is the stuff of dissent, of passion, of fear. And these are the supporting actors, the backdrop and the props for the ultimate scenario...
...critical theme for Will is "The War Against the Totalitarian, 1939,"--a war he helps wage with some of his most eloquent passages. Limiting his attacks to the Soviet Union, except for an occasional potshot at Iran. Will incessantly argues against maintaining any political, economic, or cultural relationship with Russia. "Since November 8, 1917, every assumption adopted, every premise clung to by people eager to rationalize a policy of accommodation toward the Soviet Union has been shredded by events." Searching, as he does with all subjects, for the historical coincidence to add meaning, he notes wryly that "Solzhenitsyn finished writing...
Relations between Russia and China have been hostile for two decades and worsened after the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, when the two countries suspended the border negotiations...
Adam B. Ulam, Gurney professor of History and Political Science, said the overture was one more step in an attempt by Russia to patch things up with China" that has been going on for a long time. He discounted the U.S. arms sale to Taiwan as a factor in Brezhney's action...
...environmental clean-up. Moreover, it is just possible that, by providing both sides the new experience of not racing, a freeze could produce the psychological breakthrough needed to case growing mutual suspicion. And for those who despair of ever seeing such mutual trust between the United States and Russia in these post-SALT II days, it is worth remembering that arms agreements between the United States and Soviet Union have ample precedent. Previous pacts include the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban treaty, the 1972 ban on anti-ballistic missile systems, and SALT I. Moreover, recent advances in satellite technology increase...