Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the Soviet Union would resume test ing its nuclear weapons, boasted of a superbomb that had the force of 100 million tons of TNT-5,000 times the size of the A-bomb that leveled Hiroshima, and five times the size of the biggest bomb in the U.S. arsenal. Two days later, the testing began with a medium-sized bomb explosion in Central Asia. Thus ended a three-year moratorium on nuclear testing by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R...
...advantage in more powerful bombs, such as the 100-megaton horror mentioned by Khrushchev, because the damage the monsters could do would not increase in proportion to their weight. At any rate, a single 20-megaton bomb is enough to destroy any modern city. In its present H-bomb arsenal, the U.S. has reliable 2-megaton warheads for the Titan I missile, and 500-kiloton warheads for the Navy's Polaris and the Air Force's Minuteman. In an age of megaton H-bombs, mere kilotons sound strangely small, but the Minuteman warhead explodes with 20 times...
Construction at Complex 2-A is now completed, and its Titans are being readied. Around the U.S., as other work progresses, 50 other missiles will be in place by year's end. By 1963, several Minuteman silos will be completed daily; an impressive arsenal of about 200 missiles will be primed and ready. Safely underground and protected against counterfire, they will serve as a grim reminder that the U.S. is well able to strike back against aggression of whatever magnitude. In the long run, that ability may be the deterrent that will keep the silo doors closed...
...consider himself simply a watchdog of the taxpayer's dollar. "He believes in good housekeeping," says a Treasury staffer, "not just to admire the house, but in order to utilize it.'' To Dillon, the U.S. economy is a dynamic weapon in the cold war, an arsenal of dollars that must be strategically employed against world poverty to halt the spread of Communism. Under Doug Dillon, the staid U.S. Treasury is no longer just the Government's check-cashing and revenue-gathering arm: it is an active, shaping force in U.S. foreign policy...
...December (Quadros accepted). Then Dillon was off to Punta del Este, where trouble immediately showed its hairy face. Among the 1,400 delegates gathered in the seaside resort was Castro's left-hand man. Che Guevara, who could be expected to use every weapon in his well-stocked arsenal to confuse* and defeat what he terms the "Alliance for Exploitation...