Word: triggers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heart of America's--and the world's--strategic thinking. This doctrine holds that should any nation launch a nuclear attack, enough of its victim's missiles would survive to destroy the aggressor. Anything that threatens to neutralize or eliminate one side's nuclear forces endangers this hair-trigger balance...
...Middle east, south Africa, and other "hotspots" are much more volatile, and thus more likely to cause itchy trigger fingers to edge toward The Button. Of the several dozen western nuclear alerts since the invention of atomic weapons, the majority have been in response to perceived threats in the Third World--not Europe...
...wing elements, led by Constituent Assembly President Roberto d'Aubuisson, won the upper hand in the Assembly and, in postelection bargaining, tried hard to sabotage U.S.-inspired reforms. The improvement in the observance of human rights in El Salvador is halting at best. Right-wing death squads and trigger-happy armed forces units still roam the country, adding an average of 100 victims a week to the estimated 35,000 Salvadorans who have died in the three-year conflict...
...There are few Congressmen who want to pull the trigger on American higher education," added Parker I Coddington, another Harvard director of Governmental Relations...
...eyes set in. I began to feel sick and turned off the television. The image of the victim's face stayed in my head. He had been young, probably no more than 20. Now he was dead, his two decades of life gone with the pull of a trigger, his entire existence made meaningless save for the statisticians. I wondered how his parents, if they were still alive, would react. I cried. Then I got angry...