Counterarm

After all, according to the letter of the 1979 NATO decision, the NATO council was supposed to examine first the results of the Soviet-U.S. talks and then to take a decision on whether to counterarm, as they call it in the West, or not to counterarm.

The lesson of the last four years is therefore that the zero option would not now be within our grasp if we had not taken the decision to counterarm and restore parity.

The process of detente suffered repeated setbacks, however, including the NATO decision to counterarm in 1977, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and the West's boycott of the © Olympic Games in the city of- Moscow in 1980.

The submarine is the dominating weapon today. Undersea boats spell a nameless, historical terror because no effective counterarm has been perfected.

Of course, we want them in a forum, not a forum of threat and counterthreat, arm and counterarm, but in the forum of discussion, and I suggest we put it there.

If those years are devoted to an accelerated arms race, we might very well miss the big chance while still building ever- increasing piles of arms and counterarms.

Shock at finding London in the frenzy of pike and musket manufacture, and a determination to forge counterarms of art are recorded not only in the passing wind but in new prophecies and in Night VIII, a final late addition to The Four Zoas.

Balancing this at the other end of the teeterboard was a counterarm.

Grotesque arms and counterarms of the balance mechanism below the tunnel wrote their mathematical hieroglyphs on the big instrument panel.

In the Hotchkiss superdip the total intensity is determined from the deflection of a system consisting of a magnetic needle to which is fastened a counterarm carrying a small weight and making an adjustable angle with the needle.

On the far side of the larger galaxy a counterarm sometimes sprouts out.

The deformations are triggered after the passage to perigalacticon: the two spiral arms generated are not symmetric and are distinguished by a bridge linking the two galaxies and a counterarm at the opposite side.

The very long straight tail of one is interpreted as a counterarm of one galaxy seen edge-on with the counterarm of the other galaxy seen closer to face-on as more obviously arched.