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...Which began manufacturing sound tape recorders in 1947 on the strength of an order for 20 from Bing Crosby, who was then seeking a foolproof way to record his radio show...
...American predecessors had done for 10 years, Lodge emphasized that all disarmament measures had to be subject to foolproof inspection and controls to be safe, worthwhile and acceptable to the U.S. As he and his predecessors had done for 10½ years, Soviet First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov countered with the usual propaganda talk about disarming and banning the bomb, with no assurances about foolproof inspection and controls-an attitude Lodge termed "bitterly discouraging...
...argument over the testing of thermonuclear weapons soared to a crescendo with the 1956 campaign. The headlines had barely caught up with Adlai before the White House was back with the promised Government report, in which the President reiterated that the course of wisdom was to negotiate a foolproof disarmament agreement with the Russians before throwing away the U.S. nuclear lead. "One truth must never be lost from sight," Ike wrote. "It is this: the critical issue is not a matter of testing nuclear weapons-but of preventing their use in nuclear...
...past two years of his Administration, said the President, the U.S. has proposed and the Russians have rejected no fewer than 14 new plans to break the disarmament deadlock and to work out a foolproof agreement. Under such circumstances the U.S. has no alternative but to keep up its guard. "The power of these weapons to deter aggression and to guard world peace could be lost if we failed to hold our superiority...
...imprecations of Republican orators. It was an equally eloquent passage from a speech made four years ago: "Until it [the atomic bomb] is subjected to a safe international control, we have no choice but to insure our atomic superiority . . . We can never yield on the objective of securing a foolproof system of international inspection and control. And we can never confuse negotiation with appeasement...