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...option of a nuclear strike in the mix, however, could spark some panicky discussions in Beijing. The U.S. is currently developing a National Missile Defense that would, even in its most limited version, effectively neutralize China's small fleet of intercontinental ballistic missiles. NMD was always going to spur China to greatly expand its own missile fleet to give it the potential to overwhelm U.S. defenses and therefore maintain a credible nuclear deterrent. That drive will be given added urgency by suggestions that the Pentagon might envisage a nuclear strike in a confrontation over Taiwan...
...Arab world as good reason for such states to acquire a few nukes of their own. Hostile nations don't like being told what to do under threat of an adversary's weapons of mass destruction capability any more than the U.S. does. And that tends to spur them on to develop or expand their own WMD capability. The geopolitical trump card that emerged with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 prompted first Russia, then several other countries to develop their own nukes, with Iraq, Iran and North Korea doing their best to join the club...
...campuses throughout this country, students are standing in solidarity with workers in an attempt to gain more power and rights in their university communities. A movement is happening around the country, with student activism on the rise. Our film Occupation will be used to attempt to spur students and workers on more campuses to build alliances and take strong actions to bring more democracy to their campuses...
...produce its own steel in a time of war. The key to saving the steel industry, however, is not to prevent competition, but rather to seek ways to make the steel industry in the United States more efficient and more competitive. Direct government aid to the steel industry could spur the struggling companies to reduce production costs and increase competitiveness on the global market. The development of new, more modern processing facilities would lead to more efficient and streamlined production. Competition should be used as motivation for improvement and to help boost awareness of the need for change...
Summers imagines a Silicon Valley East—for biomedical research—rising on both sides of the Charles. Just as Stanford provided the minds, the labs and even the land to spur on the development of computer technology in Silicon Valley, Summers wants Harvard to play the central role in the coming revolution...