Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...budget will include funds to get the Air Force started on a program to keep part of its nuclear-bomber force on airborne alert at all times until the missile gap is closed...
...profitably agree on strategic forces "limited to retaliatory systems capable of surviving a first strike, though insufficient for employment in a first strike." If neither side built enough arms to wipe out the other's retaliatory power, argued the report, the world might reach a "high degree of nuclear stability," a real stalemate rather than one favoring the Russians over the next decade...
...agreed last week to disarmament and a wide-open, no-strings-attached inspection system as well. The vast (5,500,000 sq. mi.) continent of Antarctica was guaranteed for 34 years as a peaceful scientific preserve in a treaty signed with full diplomatic pomp in a State Department auditorium. Nuclear explosions are specifically forbidden; any signatory may send an observer anywhere in the Antarctica at any time to look at anything...
...miles respectively. If Soviet missile doctrine is similar to the West's, each base has about 15 missiles. According to the Institute, the Soviet missile force numbers about 200,000 men, commanded by an Engineer-General with responsibility for the manufacture of nuclear weapons and missiles as well as testing and operations...
...other speakers at the weekend conference were Lt.Gen. James M. Gavin(ret.), and James F. Crow, professor of Medical Genetics at the University of Wisconsin. The harmful radiation effects of nuclear testing, Crow stated, are not negligible, but are sufficiently distributed over the earth so that testing, if politically necessary, can be continued...