Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group of 75 local lawyers, businessmen, scientists and educators have issued a report calling for a halt in the spread of nuclear weapons...
JAPAN has enjoyed an extraordinary peace since the Second World War. We have never felt the sense of being threatened by external forces, mainly because of the United States nuclear defense umbrella. In this atmosphere a particular image or feeling about Communist China has grown up. Of course there has been a wide variety of opinion but, in the main, feeling about China has been good. To some Japanese, mostly Communists and socialists, China has been the potential champion of the progressive forces of the world. Furthermore, a sense of guilt for the criminal acts of the Japanese army towards...
...first blow to this rosy picture of China occurred when China succeeded in the explosion of a nuclear bomb. In the eyes of the Japanese, the only people who have had the experience of being attacked by a nuclear bomb, the Chinese nuclear armament was real military threat. It was not a step towards total and complete disarmament as the Chinese claim...
...fact, increased, in the Asian arena of international politics while the danger in the Western arena has decreased. In Europe the antagonism between the two confronting powers, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., climaxed in a series of Berlin crises and in the Cuban crisis. But from the brink of nuclear war, the two powers have turned to peaceful coexistence--so much so that the once-allied European nations seem now to have lost any interest in NATO, the establishment of the cold...
...powers behind the present conflict will sooner or later come to realize that they cannot win a complete victory by mere force. The U.S. seems to be aware that it cannot defeat Communist China, the great power reserve behind the Ho regime, without precipitating all-out nuclear war. And China, even before it fell into the present state of confusion, seemed to know that the U.S. is militarily unbeatable. This rational realization will eventually compel both sides to a political settlement...