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Professor Cox also downplays fundamentalist fears of a Federal cadre of secular humanists setting out to destroy religions. He muses that the Moon case may be an example of the risks of a strong central government...
...physicians would not be able to take care of all the victims. A recent study by Harvard Medical School Professor Herbert L. Abrams concluded that less than half the U.S. population would be able to survive the heat and blast of a fullscale nuclear war, and the exchange would destroy 80 percent of all the medical resources for treating the injured...
...question the press should concern itself with is whether even the suspicion of sleaze should be thrust into the spotlight, given the near impossibility of removing the taint of allegations. Reputations take years to build and minutes to destroy...
...Moscow's heavy land-based missiles, which one Soviet official described as "the absolute mainstays of our defense." In October 1983, under heavy pressure from congressional critics, Reagan incorporated into his proposal parts of an alternative idea, the "double build-down": each side would be required to destroy two or more older nuclear weapons for every new one added to its arsenal. The Soviets objected that the formula by which such reductions would have been calculated was weighted against them...
...impasse over the defense budget had almost threatened to destroy the already shaky process through which Congress determines how federal funds will be spent. But after wrangling for months in the partisan atmosphere of an election year, leaders of the Republican Senate, the Democratic House and the Reagan Administration finally reached agreement last week on military spending. The compromise included goodies for all participants. But on the stickiest issue, the future of the MX missile, House Democrats came out a clear winner...