Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like gun emplacements on a hillside, that can't be hit by radar. The only way to hit them is by eyeballing them first." Since most of the Navy's and Air Force's operational jets were designed primarily for quick hit-run attacks in a nuclear war, they have neither the fuel capacity to loiter long over targets nor the armor plating to withstand ground fire...
France's nuclear force de frappe is the pride of Charles de Gaulle's old age, and he dotes upon it as part of his ultimate legacy to France. Last week De Gaulle journeyed south to Provence to see for himself how his offspring is growing. He watched a mock alert by Mirage bombers that can carry A-bombs, donned a white coat to tour a nuclear testing center at Cadarache and toasted workers with champagne at the huge Pierrelatte plant where uranium is enriched for use in a planned French H-bomb. The force will never approach...
Strutting on the Stage. The French government, not pleased by the aggressive sound of force de frappe, prefers to call its creation a force de dissuasion. The theory behind the force is that not even a nuclear power would want to destroy France at the possible cost of the retaliatory death of even a few million of its own people. This view is disputed by critics of the policy, of course, who say that few if any Mirages would make it through Russia's thick air defenses to their targets-and that the Russians know this. They point...
...strategic one. Whatever its limitations, it apparently gives De Gaulle the confidence he needs to strut on the world stage like the leader of a major power. It also obviates any reliance on the U.S., which he feels cannot be trusted to retaliate against the Soviet Union with nuclear weapons should the latter attack France. "We are worth more than that!" De Gaulle said a few years ago about what was, for him, a degrading dependence upon the U.S. The force furthers France's prestige, makes other countries more attentive to her voice in world councils, and, supposedly, enhances...
...Where a nuclear-proof vault has been built into a mountainside 125 miles north of New York City to store records of the U.S. Government, RCA, IBM, Time Inc., General Electric and other major corporations...