Word: launchful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Militarily," said Nixon, "the Soviet Union is not one bit stronger today than it was before the satellite was launched. The free world remains stronger militarily than the Communist world. And we can meet and defeat any potential enemy who might dare to launch an attack...
...that the Communists would never have attacked had they been certain that the U.S. was willing to go to war. Last week Secretary of State Dulles used his press conference to hand the Russians as blunt a warning as they are ever likely to get: if they launch any attack on NATO Part ner Turkey, even under the guise of going to the aid of Red-lining Syria, there will be war with...
...likelihood is slim, therefore, that Turkey would ever launch agressive action against either the Syrians--whose weak army could offer little resistance to the confident and trigger-happy Turkish juggernaut--or against the Russians, whose size and atomic strength unfortunately, for the Turks, preclude the thought of risking a grudge war. But on the other hand, the strength and toughness of the Turkish army now being manifested in the muscle-flexing along the Syrian border should be sufficient to deter reckless moves within Syria. Yet the hard reality of the situation in the Middle East today is that a miscalculation...
Part of the reaction was based on the presumption that if the Soviets could launch Sputnik, they had an intercontinental missile, or at least were ahead in the development of one. That presumption was far from an established fact. "Five hundred and sixty miles is only the distance from Bonn to Vienna," growled West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. "It does not prove they can fire anything parallel to the earth over a distance of many thousand miles." And even if Sputnik did imply Russian possession of an early version of an ICBM, the balance of atomic superiority still...
LONDON, Oct. 18--Russia tonight accused the United States of urging Turkey to launch an invasion of Syria along a 180-mile front and offering the active help of the American 6th Fleet...