Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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STATUS When the Soviet Union broke up in 1991, these former states possessed numerous nuclear weapons. All have rid themselves of the warheads and have acceded...
...invitation to try to acquire the technology," warns Defense Secretary William Cohen. Clinton is especially hurt at the nuclear breakout: a cherished presidential legacy, significantly turning back the nuclear clock, will not be handed on. He'd devoted considerable energy to corralling Russia's strategic weaponry, denuclearizing the former Soviet republics of Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakstan, and containing North Korea's atomic program...
...rabbinical monopoly on marriage and burial is increasingly controversial, especially in light of the mass immigration from the former Soviet Union. Immigrants who are not officially Jews, meaning their mothers are not Jewish or they have not been converted by an Orthodox rabbi, cannot get married in Israel. There are very few places where they can be buried. After one such teenager died in a recent terrorist attack, his corpse wandered the country looking for a final resting place. A man was dug up five years after his death when rabbinical authorities questioned his Jewish credentials...
...President. It was strongly neo-Malthusian, predicting environmental degradation, overpopulation, shrinking resources and vast increases in poverty unless there were technological breakthroughs and international action. The Carter Administration passed the report on to Ronald Reagan, who ignored it. The doomsayers could not have foreseen the collapse of the Soviet Union, the retreat of the welfare state in most parts of the world, the full impact of the global market or the resurgence of the American economy...
...next stage of expansion, the candidates will include Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, three former Soviet republics that border Russia itself. Russian officials from Boris Yeltsin on down swear they absolutely, positively will not tolerate Baltic membership in the Atlantic alliance. This stage, two or three years from now, could mean a return to some form of East-West cold war. And since nuclear weapons are the only way NATO could defend the Baltic states against a threat from Russia, it could also mean a return to the terrible days when thermonuclear missile forces confronted each other across European borders...