Word: nuclear
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...correctly-that a U.S. bombing raid to destroy Viet Minh antiaircraft batteries ringing Dienbienphu was strongly favored at the time by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Arthur W. Radford. In fact, U.S. military planners considered both conventional and nuclear bombing attacks and warned the Administration that, if the nation intervened, the Air Force should be free to use whatever weapons were needed; no decision on this was made. Fall writes that planning did go far enough ahead, however, for as many as 548 U.S. planes to be designated...
Within the scientific community itself, few dispute the imperative to explore space. But there are some scientists who are frankly jealous of the money that space commands. Nuclear Physicist Ralph Lapp contrasts the $1.3 billion NASA has spent on lunar and planetary science with the modest $76 million the National Science Foundation has to distribute among 5,000 scientists in such fields as astronomy, earth science, oceanography and physics. He quotes one geophysicist: "Sheer lunacy! We are spending more on Mars than we are on studying the earth." Columbia's Professor I. I. Rabi, a Nobel prizewinning physicist...
...Department of Defense financed a study of the feasibility of an international agreement preventing the spread of nuclear weapons...
...believes that "the churches can no longer take for granted a respectful hearing for anything whatever in their traditions," the changes can come none too soon. "How can pastoral imagery and a prescientific world-view," he says, "be of help to the millions in teeming cities alternately threatened with nuclear war and prom-ised life of unlimited leisure in an automated world? Theological education isolated from those who ask such ques-tions is useless...
Westinghouse Electric, which faced tough labor negotiations, strikes and a big wage hike last fall, came through the fourth quarter with earnings down 3.5% despite rising sales. But that only slightly spoiled a record year of profits, which were up 12%, to $120 million. With heavy orders for nuclear generating plants, defense and space equipment, President Donald C. Burnham expects to spend half again as much on expansion as last year's $110 million. - Jersey Standard, the largest oil producer, ended the year with profits up 5.2%, to $1.1 billion, despite a squeeze that forced fourth-quarter earnings...