Word: soviet-american
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...take away the glue that holds a coalition together. The European alliance against Napoleon was all but dead seven years after they had danced the last waltz at the Congress of Vienna. The entente that followed the defeat of Wilhelmine Germany collapsed five years after the armistice. The Soviet-American alliance against Hitler was practically finished...
...blinking computer screens and slide projectors of an array of purposeful scientists. Yet the President's concept of a space-based shield against nuclear weapons-the most radical plan put forward by any Administration since the dawn of the nuclear age-has become the single most powerful force affecting Soviet-American relations. It is also becoming the chief element in an intensifying showdown, within the Administration as well as at the bargaining table in Geneva, over the future of arms control...
...threatening missiles or the catalyst for an arms race beyond the fears of reason? Long before the scientists begin to perfect SDI's technologies, policymakers must grapple with these questions. The answers are essential to the future of arms control, a stable nuclear balance and a secure foundation for Soviet-American relations...
...address fully may be geopolitical rather than technological. What course will the Soviets take in response? Moscow, which has a lead in many applications of laser technology, seems unlikely to refrain from exploiting it. If both nations follow parallel roads into space, a new balance of forces could emerge. The President hopes that an emphasis on defensive weapons could be linked to a negotiated reduction in offensive missiles. But the Administration has not even begun to work out the possible contingencies involved in a Soviet-American military space race. If either side nears the point of deploying an ABM system...
...complex series of negotiations resulted in the release of Daniloff, the Soviet agent, and several other Soviet dissidents.But not before spending two weeks in the 18th century jail. In his tiny cell, Daniloff was given meals of spaghetti and sugar, herring, and kasha. “My Russian grandmother used to feed that to me, so that was tolerable,” Daniloff says.A GENEALOGICAL JOURNEYDaniloff credits his grandmother with “infecting me with a desire to see Russia and understand the Soviet-American relationship.” And so like many regionalists before him, Daniloff, whose father...