Word: continente
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The massing flock of doves produced by these doubts and fears must not be labeled simplistically. For the most part, the protesters are not "neutralists," a term that implies abandoning NATO for an uncommitted stance equidistant from the two superpowers. Nor do they all qualify as pacifists, since many favor...
Gone is the global U.S. military superiority that could be taken for granted in the '50s and '60s. Gone is any certainty in Europe that America's "nuclear umbrella" guarantees the security of the Continent.
The floor is stacked with copies of C.N.D.'s magazine, Sanity, whose circulation has increased from 5,000 to 60,000 in a year. Up a flight of stairs, Bruce, as the monsignor is known to his associates, works at an old wooden desk. He is on the phone constantly...
NATO's European partners have always wanted American troops stationed on the Continent, where they would be hit by any Soviet attack and thus ensure that Washington would go to war. To support this "trip wire" theory, the U.S. vowed in 1955 that it would keep 250,000 troops...
As the Soviet missile arsenal grew, Europeans became concerned that the U.S. would not use nuclear weapons to defend the Continent because of a fear that Moscow would respond by attacking American cities. For some of the allies, the uncertainty grew stronger after Washington's 1963 decision to withdraw...