Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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National Defense. Provide for a "second-strike nuclear retaliatory power capable of surviving surprise attack" and "a capacity for limited warfare that can deter or check local aggression." Needed: "Additional and improved bombers, airborne alert, more missiles of existing types, speeded production of Polaris submarines, the promptest possible dispersal and hardening of bases, and a program for civil defense." Previously, Rocky estimated the extra bill at $3.5 billion...
...decided he would probably not make any more trips abroad as President. But if circumstances changed, he would not hesitate to undertake another journey to strengthen the free world's bonds of friendship. "No consideration of personal fatigue or inconvenience, no threat or argument would deter me from once again setting out on a course that has meant much for our country, for her friends, and for the cause of freedom -and peace with justice in the world...
...showdown for the deter mined rivals for power, lean, bearded Patrice Lumumba, 35, and roly-poly Joseph Kasavubu, 43. Before the crucial vote to choose the national leadership, the newly elected Deputies ranged widely through an array of foreign and domestic issues. One rose to complain that the Belgians had not provided delegates with cars ("It's a scandal that one of our Senate colleagues had to walk to work this morning!"). Another, wearing a kind of beanie with a beelike antenna, kept urging the legislators to mind their manners, hardly deterring the wag who cried periodically, "When...
...final analysis," said Mahon, "to effectively deter a would-be aggressor, we should maintain our armed forces in such a way and with such an understanding that, should it ever become obvious that an attack upon us or our allies is imminent, we can launch an attack before the aggressor has hit either us or our allies. This is an element of deterrence which the U.S. should not deny itself. No other form of deterrence can be fully relied upon...
...infallible detection system in the U.S.: the energetic reporters of a free press. Urey hopefully predicted that there soon may be other means of detection available to those who would enforce a test ban. But last week, as testimony piled up, the argument that the probability of detection would deter the Russians from violating a test-ban treaty seemed increasingly fanciful. And the Joint Committee seemed less likely than ever to look with favor on a treaty that-in so far as underground tests were concerned-would derive its principal strength from nothing more than the good faith...