Word: tridents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brothers prayed for peace while dancing around a newly planted Japanese dogwood tree in Central Park. Their trip had included two other stops, one in New Haven, where they joined in a prayer service in support of a man facing criminal charges in connection with a protest against Trident submarines, the other in Washington, D.C., where they participated in an evening of prayer and music for Salvadoran refugees. "Radical peacemaking," the monks believe, is a natural outgrowth of the Gospel...
That possibility is taken seriously by the Soviets, who are genuinely frightened of an all-out American buildup. They are worried that an array of new American weapons-the land-based MX and Pershing II, the submarine-launched Trident II, the B-l and "Stealth" bombers, and cruise missiles deployed on land, at sea and in the air-threaten them with vulnerability and inferiority by the 1990s...
...government's annual White Paper on defense. The document reaffirmed that Britain's major military priority was to protect the country from the Soviet Union within the NATO alliance. It underlined the Thatcher government's intention to go ahead with the controversial $13.5 billion purchase of Trident submarine-launched nuclear missiles at the expense of surface ships of the kind that proved valuable but also vulnerable in the South Atlantic. Nott's critics argued that the country needed stronger conventional naval forces...
...their existing systems in order to prevent the U.S. from deploying some of the weapons planned in the Reagan defense buildup. Says one senior official: "What do the Soviets see? They see us opening production lines for MX missiles, cruise missiles, B-l bombers, and soon Stealth bombers and Trident II missiles. We could go on building them in definitely." Soviet officials object to that kind of argument as intimidation. Said Radomir Bogdanov, an arms-control expert at Moscow's USA Institute: "It's the usual American tactic of threatening your bargaining partner...
Coupled with its $1.6 trillion, five-year defense budget and its plan to push ahead with the MX, cruise missiles, the Trident II submarine program, the B-l and Stealth bombers, the Reagan START proposal in effect offers the Soviets a choice: accept a bilateral deal requiring a cutback on the weapons that may have made the U.S. vulnerable to a first strike, or the U.S. will redress the balance unilaterally by deploying an array of new weapons. In other words, make sacrifices now or face a greatly increased American threat later...