Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occasion, he liquidated a sadistic Russian agent who had secretly taken over a Caribbean isle and was all ready to divert U.S. missiles launched from nearby Cape Canaveral. In one of his most brilliant coups, Bond thwarted a SMERSH fiend named Auric Goldfinger, who tried to explode an A-bomb in Fort Knox in order to seize, naturally, all the U.S. gold; Goldfinger was so deeply committed to the gold standard that he could only make love to women coated in 14-carat gold paint...
...soon as Rusk arrived in Paris, his hosts made clear that they were angered by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's recent Michigan speech in which he denounced new, small national H-bomb projects as risky and useless. McNamara had said that "limited nuclear capabilities, operating independently, are dangerous, expensive, prone to obsolescence, and lacking in credibility as a deterrent." Asked Charles de Gaulle of Rusk: "How am I going to explain this to the French people...
Rusk explained that the key words in McNamara's speech were "operating independently." The U.S., he said, does not object to France's independent bomb-building; what bothers Washington is that France might use their nuclear weapons independently of NATO policy. It might be time, Rusk suggested, for France to think about coordinating its own plans for the force de frappe with America's nuclear planning...
...question remains as to just what is meant by "coordination." One scheme under discussion in Washington would give NATO its own nuclear capability, based on Britain's present modest H-bomb striking power and France's future force de frappe. The U.S. wants the Europeans themselves to work out the details, but strong U.S. assistance, including money, equipment, and hitherto secret information, would be forthcoming if they...
...hotel, run since the Duchess' death by her old and Rosaesque friend, Edith Jeffrey, never fully recovered from World War II, when a German bomb wrecked the front of the four-story building. Rosa, who refused to take shelter, was pulled out of the wreckage, but her precious stocks of champagne were gravely depleted. "Don't ever die," the Duchess of Jermyn Street told a friend when she recovered. "I've just been right up to the gates of heaven and 'ell, and they're both bloody." The fabled food and demented dialogue were never...