Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the puniness of the U.S. shots, Washington had been fearful that they would set off a wave of anti-American, ban-the-bomb reaction and rioting around the world. Against this, the Kennedy Administration had clamped the strictest sort of secrecy on the Christmas Island operations-admittedly more for psychological than for security reasons (after all, the Russians could learn with instruments just as much about these tests as the U.S. learned about theirs). There were to be no eyewitness news reports from Christmas Island, no photographs of mushroom clouds over the Pacific. A medical officer returning from Christmas...
There were, to be sure, ban-the-bomb demonstrations, but most had a prearranged, perfunctory quality about them...
...Japan, which has good cause for hating A-bombs, a drizzle discouraged demonstrators, but about 600 chorused antibomb songs in front of the U.S. embassy in Tokyo. U.S. Ambassador Edwin Reischauer later was heckled by 800 students at Kanazawa University, where he was lecturing on modern Japanese history. Some 800 leftist Zengakuren youths pushed and got pushed by cops who rather easily kept them away from the U.S. embassy. In Great Britain, where peace movements are strong, 1,500 marchers paraded past the U.S. embassy in London's Grosvenor Square, chanting "No more tests." Read some of the signs...
...French are grimly determined, with or without outside help, to go ahead with their atomic striking force. De Gaulle has conducted four atomic test explosions in the Sahara wastes, is close to building a modest bomb small enough to be delivered by an airplane. At the big Dassault factories, work is under way on the Mirage IV bomber, a two-seat jet that can reach Mach 2.4 (1,590 m.p.h.) over a 2,000-mile range. Fifty of these, combined with the smaller, slower Mirage III, will make a considerable new foe for the Communists along about 1965. The first...
...Memories. Since the force de frappe is inevitable, why, ask the French, should the U.S. not help make De Gaulle's task easier and cheaper? One reason is the McMahon Act, the law that forbids giving U.S. nuclear secrets to any nation not already in possession of the bomb.* But France argues that Kennedy's officials go far beyond the McMahon Act's intentions; often, say the French bitterly, the U.S. has blandly used the simple administrative device of refusing export licenses on some commodities that have nothing to do with nuclear secrets, such as missile hardware...