Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could expand Sentinel massively to protect major cities against all-out attack, which he dismissed because such protection is virtually impossible anyway...
...President explained it, the aims of his program are threefold. One is "protection of our land-based retaliatory forces against a direct attack by the Soviet Union." This is the strongest reason. The system could probably intercept a significant part of a massive Russian first strike against U.S. missile sites. The weakness of the argument, as critics point out, is that protection of the U.S.-based deterrent is not really necessary, because with its seaborne Polaris missiles and foreign-based bombers carrying H-bombs, the U.S. would retain a sufficient retaliatory strike force...
Common Cause. Nixon's second aim was "protection against the possibility of accidental attacks from any source." Should either a Chinese or a Soviet Strangelove go berserk, an attack might strike anywhere-and a limited defense would not necessarily be effective against it. Nixon's third stated aim was the shakiest: "Defense of the American people against the kind of nuclear attack which Communist China is likely to be able to mount within the decade." It was a difficult line of reasoning to maintain, since the Chinese, until at least the mid-1970s, will not have the sophisticated...
...surrender part of their sovereignty if they pledge themselves to abstain from developing the only weapons that confer big-league status. Also, Europeans in particular question America's willingness to expose its own cities to nuclear retaliation by launching ICBMs against the Soviet Union if the Russians should attack Western Europe...
Substantial Progress. Israel has still not responded to the attack on an El Al airliner in Zurich last month. After the widespread condemnation that followed Israel's strike at Beirut airport last December, the government felt it necessary to measure its response with care, at a time when the new U.S. Administration of Richard Nixon is formulating its policy on the Middle East. At his press conference last week, the President reported "substantial progress" in conversations on the Middle East with France's De Gaulle, and "encouraging" talks with the Russians. Both favor an imposed settlement-a proposition...