Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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> Seek amendment in Congress of the U.S. Atomic Energy Act to permit British and French control of small tactical nuclear weapons, including missile warheads; the project will be brought up before President Eisenhower and the National Security Council shortly.
The granddaddy of them all, Rhode Island's 91-year-old Senator Theodore Francis Green, was certain that such an attack by a national chairman on fellow Democrats was "most unusual and, I believe, completely without precedent." A member of the National Committee himself, Green sternly warned Butler not...
"If he fails to resign, the Democratic National Committee ought to fire him at the first opportunity," raged Georgia's Herman Talmadge. "We are paying Butler $35,000 a year to try to destroy the Democratic Party while [G.O.P. Chairman] Thruston Morton would be glad to do it for...
> The Senate Appropriations Committee reported out the year's whopper: the $39,594,339,000 Defense Department appropriation-$346,139,000 more than the White House had asked, with the Army getting the biggest bonus. Included in the bill were an extra $380 million nuclear carrier for the Navy...
The U.S. war plan assumes that the U.S. will suffer the first blow in any major nuclear war. It counts on the expectation that the nation will not only survive the first onslaught but will have the military strength to launch a massive counter-strike and the morale to get...