Word: threatening
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...Despite public statements about 'deterrence' and 'defense,''' they write, "the true nuclear policy of the Pentagon has envisioned using nuclear weapons to threaten, fight, survive and even 'win' a nuclear war." Current advances in laser and computer technology, they found, are renewing the American emphasis on nuclear war-fighting capability, which was in decline in the early...
WITHIN FIVE to 10 years, according to one estimate, the U.S. will be able to destroy almost all Soviet land-based missiles in a first strike. Meanwhile, advances in U.S. antisubmarine warfare threaten the formerly invulnerable Soviet submarine fleet...
...just from the backlash of a misconceived and bungled policy of trading arms for hostages, though that backlash could damage all U.S. foreign relations. Not just from suspicions of illegality in aiding the Nicaraguan contras, though those suspicions threaten to undermine one of the President's most cherished goals. Not even just from further revelations of incompetence, cover-up or worse that may come out of probes by congressional committees and Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh building on the Tower findings, painful and protracted as that process will...
After initially praising the Reagan Administration's recent commitment to increase federal funding of scientists, scholars are now expressing concern that the policy may threaten academic freedom and independence by over emphasizing research that produces practical technology...
...These big Reagan projects threaten theintellectual autonomy and academic freedom of ourresearch universities," said Gerard Piel '37,founder of Scientific American and former chairmanof the board of the American Association for theAdvancement of Science...