Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seem to assume that all our wars, including Viet Nam, may be regarded in the same context. Have you forgotten the Bomb? We are now flirting with global nuclear war. We are placing ourselves and the rest of the world in great jeopardy. We do this by not facing the facts, however unpleasant: China is the great power in Asia and she cannot be contained by us; Communism and nationalism are inseparably fused in Viet Nam, and the fusion will not disappear short of genocide. We feel ourselves called upon to destroy the Communist philosophy by war. This is impossible...
...operational, and it is clearly meant for a different kind of war than Viet Nam: it can withstand contamination from atomic, bacteriological or chemical warfare. Though military men made no mention of it, the tank of the '70s will obviously be able to fire missiles equipped with tactical nuclear warheads...
Fulbright maintained that Dirksen wanted to turn Viet Nam into a permanent U.S. base and that "a nuclear exchange" was bound to result. Dirksen disagreed. "I cannot believe that mankind has so sloughed off its compassion and its common sense as to get into that kind of a hole-yet." But, replied Fulbright, if the Communists "are as dangerous a menace as you would lead us to believe because of Viet Nam, then surely we could have no assurance that they would not use nuclear weapons." Retorted Dirksen: "They know that nobody ever won an earthquake, and they...
Consummate Duplicity. As British counterintelligence chief, he knew every strategic secret-from the development of new nuclear weapons to troop deployments-that might interest the Russians; his job was to track down and tell his government exactly which secrets had been penetrated by Russian spies. From that position, he 1) kept the Kremlin up to date on everything that really mattered, 2) selected which secrets to tell the British that the Russians knew about, and 3) told the Russians which secrets he had told the British they knew about...
...begin to stink. After 109 minutes, this particular Fish proves an intolerable guest. Not that the film is without distinction: it was directed by Michael Cacoyannis (Zorba the Greek). It may also be the homosexiest movie since Modesty Blaise. Two fliers (Tom Courtenay and Colin Blakeley) crash-land their nuclear weaponry on a mythical Greek island and spend the rest of the film in their Jockey shorts playing peekaboo with the villagers. Backing them up are a squad of sylphish soldiers dressed in mufti: the cunningest white booties, fishnet T shirts, lavender and puce shorts. Backing them...