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...Avoiding Nuclear War, they urge a series of steps to minimize the risk of a catastrophic accident. Among them: upgrading the hotline by creating crisis-control centers, establishing sanctions against nuclear proliferation, replacing short-range nuclear weapons in Europe with conventional warheads, holding regular meetings between U.S. and Soviet military leaders, and adding safety devices to prevent the inadvertent launching of submarine-based missiles. The owls do not slight the importance of arms control. They want to preserve existing arms-control treaties and negotiate new ones. They disdain such simplistic solutions as a freeze on nuclear weapons or a rigid...
Astronomers are excited about the comet not because of what they will observe from the ground but because of the five space probes launched since last year by Europe, Japan and the Soviet Union. The European craft will approach to within 300 miles of the comet's nucleus. A March mission of the space shuttle will be dedicated entirely to Halley's experiments. A battery of cameras, telescopes and mass spectrometers will analyze the comet's 30 million-to-70 million-mile tail and will seek to probe its mysterious, icy heart, which may hold clues to the origin...
COVER: Few agreements, little trust, but Reagan and Gorbachev keep trying 22 In high-ceilinged drawing rooms and before a blazing fire, for five hours alone and four with aides, the strong-willed superpower leaders strove and failed to define rules to keep U.S.-Soviet rivalry manageable. But their resolve to continue the dialogue in two future summits gives reason for hope. An inside report on their historic talks in Geneva. See NATION...
...other through their distinctive mental grids--different societies, different interests, minds formed by different histories. Walter Lippmann wrote, "We are all captives of the pictures in our head--our belief that the world we experience is the world that really exists." Reagan explained America to Gorbachev. Gorbachev explained the Soviet Union to Reagan. Neither man was moved to defect as a result of the education. More useful than cross-cultural perspective was what each man learned about the other, the lessons of eye contact, of close human inspection...
...summit meeting is in part a public ceremony of reassurance, an international soothing. To many, the ritual seemed past due. The U.S. and the Soviet Union, the great apes of the nuclear age, had not ascended to the summit since 1979. The superpowers used the intervening years to build their nuclear stockpiles and menace each other, glowering across a distance. The rest of the world skittishly watched...