Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Defense Secretary Robert McNamara over whether, as thought, manned bombers should be equally important as missiles in the U.S. deterrent force. In retirement, relieved of the usual military restraints on an officer's political views, he declared that if all else failed, the US had the capability to "bomb the North Vietnamese back to the stone age" and to "destroy every work of man in North Viet Nam if that is what it takes." Such outbursts turned even formerly sympathetic military opinion against him, bidding, heavy-jowled, with a cigar customarily clenched between his teeth, LeMay unintentionally promoted...
...took some doing. The general said that he did not like having to fight in Viet Nam and saw no need to use atomic weapons there at present-although he once advocated destroying "every work of man" in North Viet Nam and bombing its citizens "back to the Stone Age" unless Hanoi ended the war. But in his mind an atomic bomb was just another bomb. "We seem to have a phobia about nuclear weapons. I think to most military men that a nuclear weapon is just another weapon in our arsenal," he maintained. "I think there are many occasions...
Southern Drawl. Wallace's discomfort was understandable. He knew that Barry Goldwater lost countless votes in 1964 because he was considered a bomb rattler. Though he is all bluster and bombast on domestic issues and a 100% hawk on Viet Nam, he has barred nuclear weapons in Viet Nam. At the end of LeMay's press conference, Wallace jumped on reporters for even raising the matter, declaring that "General LeMay hasn't said anything about the use of nuclear weapons...
...Soviet invasion is still considered unlikely by Western observers. Nonetheless, the Yugoslavs are preparing for the worst. Tito, fearing a Soviet-inspired attempt on his life, has taken special security precautions. Throughout the country, bomb shelters are being built. As an added touch of realism, Yugoslav airplanes drop smoke bombs on some cities during air-raid drills. Emulating the tactics of the Czechoslovak broadcasters, Yugoslav radio stations are setting up alternative facilities outside the cities so that they can keep the people informed in the event that the urban areas fall to invaders. The 300,000-man Yugoslav army, which...
Each of its three turrets weighs as much as a destroyer. One salvo from its nine 16-in. guns carries nearly half the destructive power of a B-52 bomb load. Last week the world's only active battleship, the 59,300-ton U.S.S. New Jersey, with Captain Joseph Edward Snyder Jr. in command, joined a Seventh Fleet Task Force off the South Vietnamese coast. In its first action -which incidentally earned her crew combat pay for all of September - the New Jersey silenced four anti-aircraft positions just above the DMZ and twelve miles inland. It also pounded...