Word: arsenals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explosion marked the start of a new and crucial phase in the development of France's atomic arsenal. From the four explosions in the Sahara in 1960-61 and subsequent tests, the French developed a 60-kiloton Abomb, but it is so bulky that France's 40 or 50 force de frappe Mirage IV jet bombers are able to carry only one apiece. What the French hope to achieve in the new tests is a smaller, powerful warhead to ride atop the intermediate-range missile for which silos are already being dug in France's Haute-Provence...
...Force has just about finished an expansion of its tactical fighter wings from 16 to 21. The U.S. already has an advantage over the Soviet Union of better than 4 to 1 in intercontinental missiles: 1,376 Minuteman, Polaris and Titan II "birds" v. Russia's estimated arsenal of 300. The price of this military might for the coming fiscal year will be about $60 billion-or some 55? out of every tax dollar...
First, McNamara startled his audience by rejecting the notion that U.S. security depends entirely on "a vast, awesome arsenal of weaponry." Then, roving far from his Washington beat, he made an eloquent plea for a compassionate diplomacy, aimed essentially at the deprived and backward countries of the world-the "hungering half of the human race," whose "mounting frustrations are likely to fester into eruptions of violence and extremism." Said McNamara: "Security is not military hardware-though it may include it. Security is not traditional military activity-though it may encompass it. Security is development. If security implies anything, it implies...
...after which Cassius performed a surgical operation on the tissue surrounding Cooper's left eye. Ever since, Henry has been soaking his head in brine to toughen his skin. The success of the treatment was a matter of sufficient debate to lure 46,000 Britons to Arsenal Football Club Stadium last week and to persuade millions of Americans to tune in on a satellite-relay telecast. Could young Doctor Clay carve another notch in 'Enery's 'ardened...
...Proud. Anyway, said Pompidou, NATO has been something of an empty shell, since not the alliance but the U.S. atomic arsenal is what has effectively guaranteed the peace for the past 15 years. Therefore, talk of integration of NATO forces is useless because no one is willing to integrate the only force that really counts, the atomic arsenal. "The U.S. has always kept 95% of its nuclear force out of NATO and kept absolute control of the other 5%." Because the U.S. thus controls the use and distribution of all NATO's nuclear arms, said Pompidou, NATO can never...