force-reduction talks
1Strategic Arms Reduction Talks — (abbr START) talks between the US and the USSR to reduce the number of their nuclear weapons. Reductions were made after President Reagan and the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the INF Treaty in 1987 and President Bush and Gorbachev… …
2Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty — George H. W. Bush und Michail Gorbatschow bei der Unterzeichnung von START I in Moskau …
3Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions — The Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions (MBFR) talks were a series of negotiations held in Vienna between NATO and Warsaw Pact countries between 1973 and 1989. Contents 1 Origins 2 Aims 3 History 3.1 …
4Strategic Arms Limitation Talks — SALT redirects here. For other uses, see SALT (disambiguation). Gerald Ford and Leonid Brezhnev signing a joint communiqué on the SALT treaty in Vladivostok, November 23, 1974 The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty refers to two rounds of …
5United States Congress Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction — The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction,[1] colloquially referred to as the Supercommittee, is a joint select committee of the United States Congress, created by the Budget Control Act of 2011 on August 2, 2011. The act was intended to… …
6international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… …
7Military Affairs — ▪ 2009 Introduction Russia and Georgia fought a short, intense war in 2008, fueling global fears of a new Cold War. On August 7 Georgia launched an aerial bombardment and ground attacks against its breakaway province of South Ossetia.… …
8Ukraine — /yooh krayn , kruyn , yooh krayn/, n. a republic in SE Europe: rich agricultural and industrial region. 50,684,635; 223,090 sq. mi. (603,700 sq. km). Cap.: Kiev. Russian, Ukraina. Formerly, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. * * * Ukraine… …
9Union of Soviet Socialist Republics — a former federal union of 15 constituent republics, in E Europe and W and N Asia, comprising the larger part of the former Russian Empire: dissolved in December 1991. 8,650,069 sq. mi. (22,402,200 sq. km). Cap.: Moscow. Also called Russia, Soviet …
10nuclear strategy — ▪ military Introduction the formation of tenets and strategies for producing and using nuclear weapons. Nuclear strategy is no different from any other form of strategy in that it involves relating military means to political ends. In this …
