The Reagan administration nicknamed its Strategic Defense Initiative “Star Wars,” a nod to the movie's aspirational technology and the administration's goal of creating X-ray beams that could shoot down nuclear missiles. Thousands of sci-fi fans in 2012 petitioned the White House to build a ...
Efforts of the reporters to dine officials at top restaurants; Claim that the ritual began during the first term of the Reagan administration, when aides such as Michael Deaver and James Baker enjoyed sparring with reporters and leaking gourmet i...
Dr. Roberts is not some phony, unreliable, unknowing "run-of-the-mill" observer; to be conveniently explained-away; as a nut job, looney, misinformed, and delusional "conspiracy theorist" (which is a label applied to anyone that does not agree with Washington's totalitarian view/version of...
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) debate during the administration of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Fo... Bowyer,Kevin,W. - 《IEEE Technology & Society Magazine》 被引量: 0发表: 2002年 "Star Wars" revisited-a continuing case study in ethics and safety-critical software Safety-critical ...
Tools of the trade (war): Cars, electronics, motorcycles In 1987, President Ronald Reagan doubled the import prices on $300 million-worth of Japanese computers, power tools and TVs. The administration said the tariffs were in response to Japan's failure to comply with an agreement that the ...
Perhaps you’ve heard of the “pivot to Asia” under the Obama administration — the idea of redeploying U.S. military forces from the Greater Middle East and elsewhere in response to perceived threats from China. As it happened, it took the new Biden administration to begin to pull off ...
During the meeting, First Order stormtroopers under the command of Kylo Ren and Captain Phasma attack the village. Poe and his astromech droid BB-8 attempt to flee in their T-70 X-wing starfighter, but a pair of stormtroopers disable the engines with their blasters. With no alternative, ...
support by the Reagan administration for UNITA and total lack of success on the battlefield in their engagements with the SADF/UNITA team, the communist block eventually conceded to an agreement that linked South African and Cuban withdrawal from Angola.64 All SADF troops were withdrawn from ...
to use military force.[...]Washington used the playbook it had used in the Balkans during the Clinton Administration, as well as in the 202122 Ethiopia civil conflict: and that device was to always blame the victim.[...]the anti-Ethiopian Government oper - ation by the Biden State Dept....
The Iran-Contra affair, as it became known, scandalised the Reagan administration, though much of the blame was shouldered by Reagan’s subordinates. The Contras conducted a guerrilla war against the Sandinista government for almost a decade, committing hundreds of murders and other human rights ...