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Peer reviewedKelley, Colleen E. – Western Journal of Speech Communication, 1988
Examines some of the rhetorical choices of General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev which dramatize Soviet calls for nuclear weapons de-escalation. Speculates that Gorbachev's peace efforts are sincere, because they are motivated by twin crises of a failing economy and a threatened world community. (MS)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Disarmament, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Download full textJones, John Alfred – 1976
The Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 forced the Canadian House of Commons to consider whether Canadian forces in NORAD and NATO were effective without nuclear warheads on special weapons systems. This paper provides an overview of the debates and their milieu, identifies the issues involved, and analyzes the effects of the argumentation. The…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Debate, Newspapers, Nuclear Warfare
