8.3

Question 1

Reagan’s defense policy:

Answer 1

• 100MX missiles
• 100 B-1 long-range and supersonic bombers
• Construction of new stealth bomber invisible to radar
• Construction of 6 Trident nuclear submarines
• Strengthening of military communications systems
• The development of the neutron bomb

Question 2

How long did Reagan’s defense policy last?

Answer 2

6 years

1981-1987

Question 3

What was NUTS?

Answer 3

Nuclear Utilisation Target Selection

Involved directing weapons at opponent’s warheads to destroy nuclear weapons capabilities

Question 4

When was the ‘zer option’ proposed?

Answer 4

November 1981

Question 5

What was the ‘zero option’?

Answer 5

Cancel deployment of new US intermediate-range missiles in Western Europe

for

Soviet dismantling of comparable forces (600 SS20 intermediate range missiles)

Question 6

What happened on 8th June 1982?

Answer 6

Reagan, in a speech to the British House of Commons, called the Soviet Union an ‘evil empire’

Question 7

What was START and when was it?

Answer 7

Strategic Arms Reduction Talks

1983

Question 8

What was Solidarity and what was the controversy surrounding it?

Answer 8

Solidarnosc was a workers’ trade union movement which was banned and saw its leaders imprisoned in 1982

The USA gave secret assistance to Solidarity

Question 9

Consequences of Solidarity ban: