Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration has insisted that such steps are unnecessary because the U.S. has the ability to detect Soviet cheating. Said a senior official at the Pentagon: "I have not the slightest doubt that we'll soon be substantially back to where we were before the loss of the Iranian sites." The official agrees that the Soviets might get away with one more missile than the 2,250 allowed under SALT II, but "this wouldn't be militarily significant. But if they deployed an extra 100, we'd quickly know about...
...warheads, Poseidon 14. Because the range of the Trident missile is 4,000 nautical miles, some 1,500 nautical miles greater than the Polaris and Poseidon missiles, the new subs will have a much wider expanse of ocean in which to hide while still being within striking distance of Soviet targets. Moreover, their ability to run faster and quieter than the older subs will make them harder for enemy ships to detect...
After Viet Nam, John Kennedy's "pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship ..." formula rings like the penny-bright, dangerous rhetoric that it was. The old policy of containment is, of course, long dead, as is the corollary view of a Sino-Soviet Communist monolith probing ever outward. It was precisely the containment-monolith-domino view of geopolitics that led the U.S. into Viet Nam. Says Henry Kissinger: "We've learned two somewhat contradictory things. One, that our resources are limited in relation to the total number of problems that exist in the world. We have...
...brusque U.S. response to Botha's charges, as well as the refusal to deny that espionage was involved, reflected the Administration's worries about South Africa's nuclear capacity. In 1977 U.S. and Soviet aerial reconnaissance photos provided evidence that the South Africans were preparing to test a nuclear device in the Kalahari Desert. Despite Pretoria's assurances that "it does not have and does not intend to develop nuclear explosives," President Carter declared at the time that the U.S. would continue "to monitor very closely" South Africa's nuclear development...
They came seeking help, rushing past surprised Soviet guards and bursting into the U.S. embassy in Moscow last June 27. The seven Soviet citizens are now holed up as unwelcome guests in a 20-ft. by 12-ft. basement room (plus kitchen and bath). They are permitted no mail through diplomatic channels, cannot meet with reporters in the embassy building, and live in relative isolation. But they are adequately fed, at U.S. expense. Sympathizers have sent them books, and even a game of Russian Scrabble...