Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When Russia's Khrushchev-insisted on a troika to supervise a test ban last year, SANE took ads to say: "We believe that such a three-man council, operating with a veto, cancels out the very purpose of control." When Khrushchev later boasted about firing a 50-megaton bomb, SANE accused him of "an act of nuclear madness" that "contemptuously defied all decency and morality." SANE coordinated the picketing of the Soviet Union's U.N. headquarters in Manhattan by some 2,000 persons...
...differences that beset Franco-American relations, nothing angers Charles de Gaulle more than the U.S.'s refusal to help him build his atom bomb. Time after time, French officials have shown up in Washington with shopping lists for nuclear equipment and other gadgetry needed by De Gaulle's proposed force de frappe (striking force), only to be turned away. Last week, President Kennedy publicly, and emphatically, gave the French another...
...State Department's advice -and Kennedy's own inclination-was to refuse. Let De Gaulle first make good his old NATO promises, they argued; moreover, including France in the small "nuclear club" would only bring additional claimants like the West Germans running to demand the Bomb for themselves as well. As Kennedy put it last week, the U.S. is "very reluctant to see the proliferation of nuclear weapons...
...Pilgrims, both refugees from the atomic attack on Hiroshima in 1945, carried a large banner reading: "Patients in bomb hospitals send their prayers...
...Bomb on the Playground. Published in 1918 and rewritten completely for the second edition in 1921. Barth's Epistle to the Romans, as Karl Adam, a Roman Catholic put it, "felt like a bombshell on the playground of the theologians." Barth attacked the liberal assumption that the Bible expressed man's religious experience of God; instead, he said, it contains God's Word to man. This God-the real God of revelation-is a being "wholly other" than man, a God who shouts a divine No to all of man's efforts to reach him through...