Word: icbm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Armed Services Committee in voting $168 million to begin work on the Nike-X missile defense system has raised some serious questions about America's defense policy in the nuclear age. Deployment of the Nike-X program, eventually costing between $10 and $20 billion, represents a shift in anti-ICBM policy which could throw the United States and Russia into yet another arms race if carried beyond limited defense...
...Committee's action reflects a decision, at long last, regarding the basic feasibility of the antimissile system. But the scope of that system remains in question. Though the purpose of the U.S. ICBM missile system is ostensibly defensive rather than offensive, this country has at present no anti-missile defense system. We have depended, since the beginning of the nuclear race, on the threat of retalliation to deter potential aggression. Both the U.S. and the USSR have relied on increasing offensive capacity to cause nuclear stalemate. Defensive systems such as Nike-X have been considered useless in view of bipolar...
...scope of the system, however, is of crucial importance. Deployment of Nike-X in a large scale $30 billion system would undoubtedly cause the Russians to develop new offensive and defensive systems to match ours--perhaps even perfecting an ICBM capable of circumventing anti-missile missiles. These "advances" would conceivably make the Nike-X system obsolete before it is even finished...
...guts" needed to sing Wagnerian roles. Put in the U.S., it means that Thomas is the first and most notable of what appears to be a new stable of American heldentenors: men with the projection of a foghorn, the endurance of a marathon cyclist and the range of an ICBM. Most have an ego to match...
...still covered by scrubby palms. Occasional rattlesnakes are still found there, and when a hurricane drives them inland, the snakes become a serious nuisance. The pads are spread out, miles from each other, connected by a series of highways with names like "Solid Motor Road," "Central Control Road," and "ICBM Road...