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The Bush administration's decision to try to shoot down a hobbled spy satellite has drawn plenty of complaints from the disarmament lobby.(The Week)(Brief article)
The Bush administration's decision to try to shoot down a hobbled spy satellite has drawn plenty of complaints from the disarmament lobby. "The politics are terrible," groused Jeffrey G. Lewis of the New America Foundation, explained to the New York Times. Terrible, that is, for the liberal foes of missile defense. A successful effort at shielding populated areas from a man-made device that falls from space--a category that includes ICBMs--would counter many of the arguments they've made since Ted Kennedy started throwing around the term "Star Wars" as an insult. As for the satellite in question, much of it will burn up as it reenters the atmosphere. Yet half a ton of hydrazine (rocket fuel that ...
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- Newspaper article from: Appeal-Democrat (Marysville, CA) March 4, 2007 700+ words
...Congress a number of years ago cut off funding for development of a nuclear-tipped bunker buster, in a pander to the disarmament lobby. And now national security NIMBYism is removing a non-nuclear alternative from the table, based on irrational anxieties...
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- Magazine article from: National Review Buckley, William F., Jr. February 22, 1999 700+ words
...treaty (which they themselves were abrogating) and, most critically, cope with the encephalophonic criticism of the disarmament lobby. Mr. Weinberger gave one of his shy smiles, lowered his voice a little, and then told me there was a very good reason...
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- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Patrick J. Buchanan December 11, 1988 700+ words
...Khrushchev and Brezhnev never achieved with their bluster, bullying, blockades and SS20s. He has created a powerful disarmament lobby within NATO; he has won over millions in Western countries to the belief he is a better friend of peace than is Ronald...
- The perilous politics of defense. (Democratic candidates)
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Rainie, Harrison October 5, 1987 700+ words
...Last Saturday, they went live from Des Moines, Iowa, home to as many peace groups as farm groups, in a debate before a disarmament lobby called Starpac. There was a heavy dose of promises about initiating new arms-control agreements and a comprehensive...
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- Newspaper article from: Forward James Ring Adams September 22, 1995 700+ words
...Politicized pop-science magazines like Nature and Scientific American derided the "biological warfare scare." The world disarmament lobby, in the person of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, called on the American administration to drop...
- EDITORIAL: NIMBYism and national security.(Editorial)
- Newspaper article from: Northwest Florida Daily News (Fort Walton Beach, FL) February 24, 2007 700+ words
...Congress a number of years ago cut off funding for development of a nuclear-tipped bunker buster in a pander to the disarmament lobby. Since then, engineers at Eglin Air Force Base have worked on a non-nuclear version called the Massive Ordnance Penetrator...
- Reviewing the ABM treaty-I, II, and III. (anti ballistic missiles) (column)
- Magazine article from: National Review Buckley, William F., Jr. July 18, 1986 700+ words
...announced that he would no longer feel bound by the erms of SALT II, and the reaction to this was as expected from the disarmament lobby. But the feeling is that the events of 1972 (SALT I and ABM) and 1979 (SALT II) are in flux. It is time to review...
- EDITORIAL: Bunker buster has to be tested.(Editorial)
- Newspaper article from: Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, TX) May 8, 2006 700+ words
...control systems, are hidden? Congress has canceled all work on a nuclear-tipped bunker-buster, in a pander to the disarmament lobby, so that option isn't on the table. We will thus have to count on non-nuclear alternatives. But how can we be sure...
Source: HighBeam Research, The Bush administration's decision to try to shoot down a hobbled spy...