Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Derision is poured on De Gaulle's military policy. He is caricatured as a medieval crossbowman in the company of rifle-toting U.S., Britain and Russia. France's A-bomb is the "atomic weapon with the bicycle chain reaction." When De Gaulle applies for admission in the Atomic Club, he is asked to produce his bomb. "I haven't got one," he replies. "It went off." In its bitterness, the magazine is losing some of its sense of humor. De Gaulle is no longer Le Grand Chariot but Le Grand Charletan...
...says what he believes, and that's more than you can say for Bob Stafford." A little later, though, when his friends were discussing the issues of the campaign, the same man observed that "I wouldn't recognize Red China in the U.N. In fact, I'd drop a bomb on them right now. America has to become an imperialistic country--has to kill some people--if she's going to keep freedom in the world...
...Norman Vincent Peale's bomb was Nixon's worst piece of inherited bad luck in the campaign so far, the agreement to debate with Kennedy on TV was his own worst tactical mistake. Though Nixon drew even with Kennedy in the later rounds, the four encounters together helped Kennedy enormously-not so much by weakening Nixon's public image as by strengthening Kennedy's. Before the debates, after 7½ years as Vice President, Nixon was far better known, and though he had many detractors, seemed a man of much greater maturity and experience-though their...
...this were all that they may do, there would be little excitement. But U-235 is not an ordinary commodity; only a few-pounds, perhaps less, are now required to make the detonator for a hydrogen bomb that can smash the world's biggest city. The other nuclear ingredients of such bombs, deuterium and lithium 6, are comparatively easy to come by. High skill and knowledge are needed to assemble these devices, but both can be acquired by any purposeful nation, however small...
...would not be difficult to negotiate a full-scale arms control system in the Western hemisphere, Chayes asserted. Such a system would "give the United States a chance to experiment with inspection techniques." At present, "any South American government can get the atom bomb, and any can fall under the control of a Castro or a Peron." Chayes also suggested negotiating an "arms embargo for black Africa...