Word: triad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raucous school boycott in New York City reflects the nationwide fear of the fatal disease. The medical facts are far less frightening than the myths. Reagan pre- empts Congress with compromises on South Africa and protectionism. Inside the three legs of the strategic Triad. Test of a satellite killer. Neo- Nazis go on trial in Seattle. Farm Aid: a benefit concert is planned...
...years since the Enola Gay, a B-29 long-range medium bomber, dropped its atom bomb over Hiroshima, America's nuclear-weapons systems have evolved into what has been known for the past 25 years as the Triad. The name comes from the fact that U.S. strategic nuclear weapons are based in the water, on land and in the air. Defense strategists agree almost universally that all three legs of the Triad are essential because each by itself has weaknesses that are offset only by the strengths of the other two. Land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), for example...
...part of its overall military modernization, the Reagan Administration has ordered or overseen major improvements in all three of the Triad's legs. To assess the changing nature of the nation's strategic defense machine, TIME Pentagon Correspondent Bruce van Voorst sampled day-to-day operations in each of the Triad's components. He dived with the Trident submarine Henry M. Jackson off the Bahamas as the vessel made final preparations to join the Pacific Fleet, strapped himself into the cramped confines of a B-52 on a simulated bombing strike out of South Dakota's Ellsworth Air Force Base...
...possibility, considered remote by most experts, that the Walkers had compromised the security of America's sea-based strategic missile force. U.S. military planners contend that land-based missiles and bombers are highly vulnerable to Soviet pre-emptive attack. Only the sea leg of America's nuclear triad is thought to be impervious to detection. If either side could knock out the other's subs, the balance of terror would be drastically changed...
...Susan Cheever write Home Before Dark, a "biographical memoir" of her father -- published a mere two years after his death, and revealing his hidden triad of dark sins: alcoholism, marital strife, and homosexuality...