Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arsenal, a process that has become routine in the cold war. It provides no fancy new weapons except those previously planned. One such is the Poseidon missile, which will replace the less accurate and less powerful Polaris birds in the tubes of most of the 41 nuclear submarines. A contingency fund of $377 million is earmarked for initial production and deployment of antiballistic missiles in the event that negotiations with the Russians to bar such weapons fail. Thus, large as it is, the defense budget represents an attempt to hold the line on military spending-an attempt that is certain...
...those who have borne responsibility in our country since 1945 have not for one moment forgotten that a third world war would be a nuclear...
...doubts. There is thus increasing confusion about both our basic purpose and our tactics, and there is increasing fear that the course now being pursued may lead us irrevocably into a major land war in Asia -- a war which many feel could not be won without recourse to nuclear weapons, if then...
...offers of uncommonly high salaries. The initial faculty of 103, for 594 students, included eight former college presidents. Harper's dreams of an internationally famous center of post-graduate research were fulfilled. Besides its early Nobel Prize-winning research in the sciences, culminating in Enrico Fermi's first controlled nuclear chain reaction in 1942, the university pioneered the new field of sociology and quickly gained professional schools in business, law, divinity and medicine...
...selected because 1) there are no antismog regulations out on the desert, 2) the Colorado River is an ideal source of the water required by the plant, and 3) the desert land is central to the areas it will serve. selection of coal, rather than gas-oil or nuclear energy to fuel the Mohave power plant, was determined by the simple economics of electric-power production. Coal-generated power costs about 60% as much as that produced by a new nuclear plant, and at least 10% less than gas-oil generation. Moreover, new, extra-high voltage power lines, such...