Word: terrorizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reaganauts see Star Wars as opening the door to a new, more hopeful form of deterrence. At present, nuclear peace paradoxically depends on "mutually assured destruction" (MAD): an attack by one side guarantees a devastating counterattack. Star Wars, argues McFarlane, would obviate the need for this balance of terror. Says he: "You would move away from a strategy based on the ability to threaten with offensive power to greater reliance upon systems that don't threaten anybody." A switch from offensive to defensive deterrence would indeed be a radical change, but not necessarily for the better. Since it is hard...
...addition, Reagan has tilted the world's attention to outer space, whether he planned it that way or not. The arms talks will now focus on Reagan's Star Wars concept for a space-based defense against nuclear missiles as a substitute for the current balance of terror. Virtually every debate about national security will lead into the heavens, where the U.S. space shuttle flies, and plans have been made for a permanent space station...
There were no signs that the Iranians, who were giving the events extensive television coverage, were prepared-or able-to end the terror aboard the Airbus. Said Robert Oakley, director of the U.S. State Department Office of Counterterrorism: "We feel there is a great deal of sympathy, if not support and active collusion, on the part of the Iranian government." President Reagan declared at a press conference that the Iranians "have not been as helpful as they could be in this situation, or as I think they should have been." But he left open the possibility that Tehran might have...
Held in those first 12 minutes to just two points and no rebounds by Boston's top high school player of last year--former Central Catholic standout Leo Parent, of Lawrence--the Crimson's 6-ft., 8-in, tower of terror showed he can point his finger as well as he can play the game...
...Star Wars program has a certain appealing plausibility: defense is better than offense, safety behind a shield in the sky is better than the "balance of terror." Technological feasibility aside, however, the opponents of Star Wars seem to have the better case. The prospect of one side more or less safe while the other side is open to attack is untenable in the nuclear age. Moreover, in the absence of a new bargain with the Soviets, such a situation is bound to be relatively short-lived. Sooner or later the Soviets can catch up with American technology, the most notable...