Word: triggers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, Soviet Delegate Pavlichenko was escalating the Soviet threat that deployment would trigger an INF walkout and military "countermeasures." He hinted darkly that there might be new Soviet weapons in "Cuba and other Central American countries," a phrase that at the time could only mean Nicaragua. "How would you Like to have missiles there?" he asked. Other members of the Soviet negotiating team were issuing more credible threats: an increase in the number of SS-20s, the deployment of new shorter-range missiles in Eastern Europe, bringing submarines equipped with cruise missiles and low-flying "depressed-trajectory" ballistic missiles near...
...Soviet Union (vs. several hours for a ground-launched cruise missile). The Soviets have always objected to the Pershing IIs more than the cruise missiles, not only because the ballistic Pershing IIs are faster but because the Soviets have a particular phobia of any German fingers near a nuclear trigger, even though the Pershing IIs will remain under total U.S. control...
...easy to draw a straight line between Lebanon and Grenada. Yet both President Reagan and his critics have managed the feat. For the President, what connects the two points is a malevolent Soviet presence that seeks to turn trouble into opportunity. For the critics it is a trigger-happy, blustering President who turns diplomatic problems into snooting wars...
...sheet of copper (90? per lb.) and says to a friend: "Wow! Did you ever see the kitchen hood I built from this stuff?" Musing about copper planters, he stacks up a roll of Nalgene chemical-resistant plastic, and a couple of xenon flash tubes used to trigger ruby lasers. "It's fascinating what you can do with these," he gloats. "You can make a short-duration light-pulsing device." For fun? "Oh, yeah...
...subdued mood was appropriate to the occasion in more ways than one. The U.S. invasion of Grenada and the execution of Marxist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop that preceded and helped trigger the U.S. move have dealt Castro's influence in Central America and the Caribbean Basin a greater blow than any events since the missile crisis...