Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sustained personal attack from Adlai Stevenson (see below), Ike last week used the forum of his press conference for jab after jab at his Democratic opponent. Then, within 24 hours, he delivered two roundhouse punches: the White House released two documents berating Stevenson for his stand on H-bomb testing and the draft...
...proposals tossed around during the warmup period of the campaign, two touch directly on the fundamental issue of U.S. security. These are Adlai Stevenson's urgings that 1) the U.S. take the lead in ending H-bomb tests, and 2) the U.S. take steps to end the draft. Last week President Eisenhower replied in two prepared statements. Excerpts...
Adlai Stevenson's proposals that we halt H-bomb tests and think about ending the draft deserve praise because these statements made campaign issues out of national defense problems heretofore clouded in "bi-partisan" obscurity. But neither Stevenson's words not the Eisenhower administration's replies give any indication that a very necessary debate on defense policies will take place before November...
...these changes have been made, the Soviet Union has developed a hydrogen bomb and a bomber force capable of dropping them in large numbers on American cities. A situation has developed in which despite relative size or quality of air forces, both the United States and the Soviet Union can cause catastrophic destruction in the other's territory. This situation, making atomic weapons nearly obsolete, means it is more necessary than ever to have a balanced group of weapons...
Armed with an atom bomb, even the peaceful Terrapin would be a formidable weapon. A dozen or more could be carried in an Army truck. They could be unloaded, aimed and fired by the truck's crew. Each rocket could have its own launching gear, allowing salvo firing and the range would be something like 150 miles. Accuracy would not be good, but this would make little difference. The cheap, light missiles could be fired in dense patterns like shot from a chokebore shotgun, and each would have enough power to knock out a good-sized city...