| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services - 1984 - 270 pages
...our allies rely upon our strategic offensive power to deter attacks against them." The President was "more and more deeply convinced that the human spirit...and human beings by threatening their existence." President Reagan was clearly not talking about defense of missile silos ; he was talking about rendering... | |
| Douglas P. Lackey - 1984 - 300 pages
...deterrence of aggression through the promise of retaliation. Over the course of these discussions, I have become more and more deeply convinced that the human spirit must be capable of rising above dealings with other nations and human beings by threatening their existence. If the Soviet Union will... | |
| Avner Cohen, Steven Lee, Steven P. Lee - 1986 - 514 pages
...offered to share such a defensive technology with the Soviet Union at some future time. He added, "I have become more and more deeply convinced that the human...nations and human beings by threatening their existence . . . Would it not be better to save lives than to avenge them?" The underlying idea is praiseworthy,... | |
| Rip Bulkeley, Graham Spinardi - 1986 - 404 pages
...having been spent on such matters, the President finally strained for something more inspiring: I have become more and more deeply convinced that the human...nations and human beings by threatening their existence . . . One of the most important contributions we can make is ... to lower the level of all arms, and... | |
| Howard F. Didsbury, Jr. - 1986 - 332 pages
...offered to share such a defensive technology with the Soviet Union at some future time. He added, "I have become more and more deeply convinced that the human...nations and human beings by threatening their existence. . . Would it not be better to save lives than to avenge them?" The underlying idea is praiseworthy,... | |
| Jeffrey Tulis - 1987 - 224 pages
...are one and the same, to think in a completely new way about strategic defense. Says Reagan: . . . I've become more and more deeply convinced that the...nations and human beings by threatening their existence. . . . What if a free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon... | |
| Edward Tabor Linenthal - 1989 - 168 pages
..."spectre" of mutual threat, concluding that it was a "sad commentary on the human condition." He was "convinced" that "the human spirit must be capable...and human beings by threatening their existence." Then Reagan turned to the nation's scientists, "those who gave us nuclear weapons," and challenged... | |
| James C. Gaston, Janis Bren Hietala - 1994 - 264 pages
...shifted to a more fundamentally moral note: Over the course of these discussions [with my advisors], I've become more and more deeply convinced that the...nations, and human beings by threatening their existence. . . . Tonight, consistent with our obligations of the ABM Treaty and recognizing the need for closer... | |
| Robert C. Hughes - 1995 - 273 pages
...investigation. Morality of Nuclear Deterrence. In his initial SDÌ speech, President Reagan said that he had become "more and more deeply convinced that the human...and human beings by threatening their existence." He went on to say that the specter of retaliation and of mutual threat is "a sad commentary on the... | |
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