Word: nuclear
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...diagram above). Dummy missiles may be employed or missiles releasing decoys that defending radar has difficulty differentiating from authentic warheads. A single missile can suddenly eject multiple warheads that separate widely enough so that even a well-aimed ABM will destroy only one of them. An advance high-altitude nuclear explosion can temporarily blind a city's radar defenses or attackers can simply saturate a city with more ICBMs than there are defending missiles...
...military planners remain haunted by the frightening possibility that the Russians have actually developed a technique that will come up to Khrushchev's boast that a Russian rocket could "hit a fly" in outer space. Rumors have circulated in Washington about Russian "Xray defense" and "zap" effects of nuclear explosions far bigger than those involved in the Nike-X system-explosions that would effectively clear the skies of most, if not all, U.S. ICBMs, no matter how many were launched...
...Germans were further concerned by Britain's aggressive backing of a nuclear nonproliferation treaty, which, in German eyes, might reduce the have-not countries to permanent pawns of the nuclear-possessing nations and send Russian agents scurrying across Germany prying into even the most peaceful uses of atomic energy. Moreover, Britain's effusive welcome for Kosygin, and the fact that his hosts uttered hardly a tut-tut in remonstrance after he publicly attacked West Germany, confirmed in many Germans the belief that Britain remains perhaps the most anti-German country in Western Europe. As far as the Germans...
...Princeton, N.J. Tall, thin and reserved, the son of German immigrants, Oppenheimer was a pioneer student of relativity and quantum theory at Caltech in 1943 when he was called upon to lead the Los Alamos scientists in their race to give the U.S. the world's first nuclear weapon. It was a task he discharged brilliantly, and then in peacetime, as chief adviser to the A.E.G., turned around to argue bitterly against carrying on with the vastly more powerful hydrogen bomb. His stand, along with disclosure of his past left-wing association, stirred a nationwide controversy that culminated...
Died. The Rev. A. J. Muste, 82, militant U.S. pacifist, a tall, deceptively soft-spoken Protestant clergyman who was noted for saying in 1940, "If I can't love Hitler, I can't love at all," later, in 1958, for sailing through the U.S. Pacific nuclear zone while tests were under way, and most recently as one of three clergymen received by Ho Chi Minh during their January "peace mission" to Hanoi; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...