Word: outer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign was scrambling to make good on its decision to go for the additional $100 million and, according to Reardon, "there was concern that we had exhausted the outer limits of the alumni's capacity...
Shultz and Gromyko arranged their two-day conference to discuss negotiations on the whole range of present nuclear weapons and those which one day could be considered for outer space...
...outer space "defensive" weapons, the United States is determined to move ahead with "Star Wars" research under President Reagan's strategic Defense Initiative, claiming the Soviet Union has advanced in a similar field...
...defense offers a better avenue to deterrence than mutual assured destruction ignores the scientific consensus that a fool-proof missile defense would be impossible to achieve and prohibitively expensive. Proceeding indiscriminately with Star Wars development only offers the hope of a budget-draining resumption of the arms race in outer space, because, as the history of the nuclear arms race has shown so well, any attempt to gain superiority over the Soviets will doubtless be matched in time...
...past six months Moscow has conducted a deft propaganda campaign of mir i druzhba--peace and friendship--designed to put the onus on the U.S. to avoid what the Soviets call the militarization of space. "It is especially important to avoid the transfer of the arms race to outer space," warned Mikhail Gorbachev, the Kremlin's No. 2 man, in talks with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. "If it is not done, then it would be unreal to hope to stop the nuclear arms race." Recognizing that Britain and other allies are leery of Star Wars, Gorbachev hoped to exploit...