Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coup before civilian rule...
This kind of contingency planning for a less than total war, sometimes called the "least awful option," is attracting attention among civilian defense experts serving congressional committees. Even Secretary of Defense Harold Brown admits that while "we should remain skeptical about small-scale nuclear demonstrations," the U.S. should preserve "the capability for a small-scale demonstration...
...said the protest is directed at the military-industrial complex to change the orientation of the economy from military to civilian needs...
...order received high priority with a government decree granting $100 million in pay raises to the police, as promised by the Tories during the campaign. Another pledge, to raise armed forces' salaries to civilian levels, was fulfilled the next...
...progress, and the Government's customary secrecy in military matters, intelligence and foreign affairs has spread to many parts of the bureaucratic and corporate spheres. The clandestine spirit that properly cloaked the devising of atomic weapons inevitably carried over to veil the development of nuclear power for civilian purposes...