Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle. Knows that De Gaulle will not be satisfied unless given the Bomb, and even that won't change him. Would just make him independent of NATO. Doesn't like proliferating the Bomb Club anyway...
...eight of the "middlemen" at the conference (Brazil, Burma, Ethiopia, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Sweden and Egypt) were pressing both East and West to keep talking. With their usual moral myopia, several flatly condemned all further bomb tests. "Haven't you sufficiently contaminated, with your arms tests, the air we breathe, the milk we drink, the food we eat?" cried Egypt's Foreign Minister. Some "neutrals" had well-meaning but irrelevant proposals of their own to make: Ethiopia's Acting Foreign Minister Ke-tema Yifru pleaded that Africa be declared an "atom-free zone"; Sweden's Foreign...
Whether or not the Soviet Union has nuclear bomb shelters is a subject of some sharp controversy in the U.S. When Rand Corp. Expert Leon Goure reported last year that the Russians are quietly engaged in a massive civil defense effort (TIME, Nov. 10), many Westerners in Moscow scoffed. Soviet officials ridiculed the fitful U.S. shelter program as a waste of time and money. Shelters, said Soviet Defense Minister Rodion Y. Malinovsky, are "nothing but previously prepared tombs...
...missed: air vents, escape tunnels and blastproof steel doors in the basements of apartment houses and public buildings (although reporters have not actually seen such protective devices on the newest buildings going up in Moscow). A film revealed how stations on the Moscow subway can be quickly converted into bomb shelters by closing them off from the tunnel by means of massive steel doors lifted into place with hydraulic jacks. Another movie demonstrated how to combat the effects of atomic radiation...
...Cesarski. chief of the Polish army's antiaircraft command, in an interview with a Warsaw military journal: Poland not only has organized nearly 500,000 workers into paramilitary cadres for the protection of "life and property in the event of atomic war," but it has been busily building bomb shelters. Cesarski echoed the Communist line that shelter construction in the U.S. was a capitalist plot engineered by money-hungry bankers...