Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nitze and his colleagues had expected that the zero option would run into a stone wall in Geneva. They were somewhat more surprised to discover that Washington gave them virtually no flexibility to explore compromises along the lines of what the State Department had originally favored: a reduced SS-20 force offset by a scaled-back NATO package...
...there is to prevent the U.S. from deploying Pershing II and ground-launched cruise missiles in Europe later this year. A strong peace movement on the Continent, supported by some U.S. advocates of a bilateral freeze on nuclear weapons, also opposes such deployment. In November 1981 Reagan proposed his "zero option," under which the U.S. would forgo this positioning of missiles that could strike the Soviet Union if the Kremlin would agree to dismantle all 350 of its SS-20 missiles, many of which are aimed at targets in Western Europe...
...would Reagan explore alternatives to his zero-option proposal, a reporter inquired. The President, reasonably enough, replied that he could not discuss such options in public because then "you've tied your hands with regard to attaining anything." The trouble with the answer, however, was that Reagan's rival in the Kremlin has been talking quite openly about negotiating positions-and tying Reagan up in knots. Preposterous as it seems to Americans, Andropov is managing to portray the Soviet Union as the superpower most concerned about controlling nuclear weapons...
...diehard proponents of the death penalty, deterrence hardly matters anyway. Declares Buckley: "If it could be absolutely determined that there was no deterrent factor, I'd still be in favor of capital punishment." Taking the lives of murderers has a zero-sum symmetry that is simple and satisfying enough to feel like human instinct: the worst possible crime deserves no less than the worst possible punishment. "An eye for an eye," says Illinois Farmer Jim Hensley. "That's what it has to be. People can't be allowed to get away with killing." Counters Amsterdam: "The answer...
...number of Soviet nuclear missiles aimed at Western Europe, from an estimated 250 to 162, the number that Britain and France now have in their independent nuclear arsenals. At that time, Reagan outspokenly stuck to the U.S. position at the Geneva talks on intermediate-range nuclear weapons, a "zero option" under which NATO would forgo the planned deployment, starting at the end of this year, of 572 new Pershing II and cruise missiles if the Soviets dismantled all intermediate-range missiles...