Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first move toward repairing the damage, the 14 NATO military members formed a new high council to study a whole new defense system: the Defense Planning Committee. They also set up the new seven-nation Nuclear Planning Group, of which West Germany is a key member. The group's mission will be to select targets, deploy NATO's 7,000 warhead nuclear force, and recommend when, if ever, to fire in anger. But the ownership of the weapons and final decision to fire remain with the U.S. The hope is that the new committee will satisfy the West...
Chemical and biological weapons don't have to be as dangerous as nuclear armaments, but they can be. A chemical weapon works like an insecticide, except that chemicals may range from only temporarily debilitating to lethal. Biological weaponry works like any disease. In addition to ranging from non-lethal to lethal, a biological weapon can also be non-contagious or contagious. A contagious weapon could even kill people who were not in the original target zone, since the germs could spread to other areas...
...Nuclear weapons are reasonably controllable. At least, it would take some time and bureaucratic shuffling about before a great nation could decide to drop one. And nuclear weapons will always be under the thumb of massive, relatively rational, political units because it is too expensive for an individual to make one in his workshop...
...also leads to some touchy problems in international relations. If a country has a policy of using only non-lethal CB arms, Meselson says, only that country knows for sure it is a non-lethal policy. And there is, at this time, no biological equivalent for seismographic detection of nuclear testing, so suspicious nations could not find out what is actually being done in the enemy camp...
...today's affluent Japan, the Socialists have had little success with their doctrinaire, Peking-lining appeals. They failed last year to block the treaty that normalized relations with Korea. Nor have they been able to force Sato to declare the country off limits to visiting U.S. nuclear-powered submarines or to dissociate Japan from the U.S. stand in Viet Nam. Though most Japanese are prospering as never before, the Socialists still rant about complete nationalization of all Japanese industry and the need for class warfare...