Word: neu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Neu Isenburg, West Germany...
...first tested underground in Nevada in 1963, the neutron bomb received its most recent push in 1975 from then Defense Secretary James Schlesinger. He concluded that the threat to use NATO's tactical nukes was losing its credibility and therefore its deterrent power. Schlesinger reasoned that neu tron bombs would constitute a credible deterrent. President Ford approved production funds for two new warheads in the fiscal 1978 budget that is now making its way through Congress. The cost is classified but is estimated to be between $10 million and $20 million. It went almost unnoticed-and unpublicized-until debate...
...trim personnel from the present 3,500 (down from 49,500 at the height of the Viet Nam War) to 270 military advisers. Alarmed by the Communist threat, many Thai voters as well as the country's powerful military bosses apparently disagreed with the Prime Minister's neu-tralistic approach...
...BARBARA NEU...