Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bavarian Franz-Josef Strauss, are suspicious of Erhard's foreign policy. They favor further exploration of Franco-German unity and would not mind an independent nuclear force for Germany. Their fear of concessions to the Russians became obvious in this summer's debate over ratification of the Moscow atom-bomb pact, when they directly opposed Erhard...
Peking last week publicly admitted that Red China will not have its long-promised nuclear bomb for a long time to come. Foreign Minister Marshal Chen Yi conceded that economic troubles and the quarrel with the Russians (who withdrew their technicians and broke an atomic-aid treaty) have seriously delayed Peking's atomic program. It would be "several years," Chen told visiting Japanese correspondents, before the regime could even test a crude atom bomb...
...China is far from giving up its nuclear ambitions. Some time ago, Khrushchev warned that any country trying to build a bomb without adequate resources might lose its pants. Nevertheless, said Chen, sounding like an echo of Charles de Gaulle, "at the risk of losing our pants, we are determined to go ahead and build our own atomic bombs. Otherwise we will end up as a second-or third-class nation...
...Chinese may be a long way from building an atom bomb, but their antiaircraft techniques appear effective enough. Last year they shot down a Nationalist U-2 reconnaissance plane, one of a pair sold to Formosa by the U.S. in 1960. Last week, on the day after Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's 76th birthday, Peking announced that it had shot down the other U-2 over the mainland...
...only alternative to these national nuclear aspirations would be a truly international force or a genuine defense partnership between the U.S. and Europe, with shared control of the Bomb. Washington's hesitant and plainly inadequate move in that direction is represented by the multilateral force (MLF), a clumsy concept loved by no soldier, which foresees a boat in some distant sea with a Russia-aimed bomb on board. At the throttle is a German and at the rudder a Briton. Luxembourgeois, Belgians and Dutchmen run the galley, and a Frenchman (if he can be enticed on board...