Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...United States must cooperate with the Soviet Union to ensure security. At home, the government must use research and development to detect the location of the nuclear weapons, he said. In Russia, it must work with local officials to locate them...
Nunn emphasized the importance of the Nunn-Lugar legislation and the potential danger of nuclear weapons in the former Soviet Union...
...Bonn meeting are offended that the U.S. is making any demands at all, considering how little it has done to fight the greenhouse effect. In fairness, while the European Union has taken the problem more seriously, some of its success was due to political accident. The collapse of the Soviet bloc, for example, allowed Germany to shut the former East Germany's most antiquated factories. And in England, the declining power of coal miners' unions enabled factories to switch to cheaper but less polluting fuels they'd long favored anyway...
...ground controllers had different ideas. "Stay at your post!" they ordered. Tsibliyev repeated his request a few minutes later, and was told again, "Stay at your post!" At NASA, once the sworn rival of the Soviet space program, such an order would probably not stand, not when the pilots being commanded were self-styled cowboys like Alan Shepard or Gordon Cooper. But the Russian program was a different beast, and cosmonauts learn early that the word of the ground is all but inviolable. Tsibliyev, despite himself, stayed at his post...
...retired naval-intelligence officer. My son, a former submariner, and I have jointly written a book, Shadowing Crazy Ivan, that discusses U.S. intelligence operations regarding Soviet submarines. During the Cuban missile crisis, I briefed President Kennedy and his advisers. Although few people knew it, there was a Cuban submarine crisis going on at the same time that posed a greater threat than the short-range missiles being installed in Cuba. The U.S. had received evidence of Soviet submarine-pen construction that would have enabled Soviet submarines capable of launching long-range missiles to cruise up and down U.S. coasts...