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Word: abm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Great Missile Debate" [March 14]: A parched world groans with hunger, our cities broil in the hatreds of the dispossessed, and the Pentagon wants us all to sit under a multibillion-dollar ABM umbrella! And lo, the umbrella is full of holes! So is our national conscience and sense of stewardship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 28, 1969 | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...more likely that she would sneak her missiles right up to our shores on her many hundreds of submarines, merchant ships, and fishing trawlers and knock us out before any $400 billion ABM system could detect the attack, much less block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 28, 1969 | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...where's the likelihood of the 40-minute warning and the high missile trajectory that alone can give sense to the ABM expenditure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 28, 1969 | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...many, it looked last week as if the new President's honeymoon was ending with his first tough decision. That judgment seems premature-but the beginning of the end of forbearance and tolerance is probably in sight. Nixon's gamble is that the ABM will prove technically workable within the next five years. More vital than its defensive value, perhaps, is how important any ABM system may prove to be in dealings with the Russians on such urgent questions as arms control and Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE ABM: NOT REALLY SETTLED | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...Nixon's ABM announcement dashed hopes that he would drastically cut back military spending, his restrained response-or non-response-to the Communist offensive in Viet Nam unsettled some of his more hawkish supporters. Some of his critics attacked on both fronts. South Dakota's George McGovern, one of the Senate's most steadfast antiwar spokesmen, called the ABM decision, "a blunder comparable to the decision to escalate the war in Viet Nam in 1965." In a speech planned for delivery this week, McGovern aimed one of the bitterest attacks on the war heard since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Squeeze on Viet Nam | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

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