Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Malaysia, though it offers no direct support in the Viet Nam war, "fully understands and welcomes the difficult but vital role your great coun try is playing." At a state dinner in Malaysia's Parliament House, Johnson responded by warning Red China's lead ers that "any nuclear capability they can develop can - and will - be deterred." He added: "Nations which do not seek nuclear weapons can be sure that they will have our strong support...
...influence on the Army," some of De Gaulle's military colleagues were not so elated. Retired Air Force General Pierre Gallois suggested that the new provisions are fine but not "for soldiers at war." Another veteran officer imagined a situation where "a pilot of a Mirage IV [French nuclear bomber] receives an order to throw his bomb on Square 88, refuses until he has a guarantee that in his sector is neither a school, a hospital or a church...
...engineers on the new system's range and reliability would put Tokyo, Taipei, Manila, Saigon and New Delhi within Chinese striking radius (see map). But any move to strike-or blackmail-those capitals would have to take into consideration the U.S. capacity for retaliation, ranging from simple, non-nuclear bombing power, to missile-borne holocaust...
...Bang. The true value of the Chinese test last week was psychological and political. It came when the U.S. and its Asian allies were meeting in Manila. At the same time, Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution needed a bang, and the announcement of the missile-borne nuclear test filled that need. The test showed that Chinese science is "advancing at even greater speed under the brilliant illumination of Mao Tse-tung's thought," crowed Peking's characteristically pompous communiqu...
...thinkers as Physicist Charles Townes, who worked out principles that led to thet maser and laser, and Cyberneticist Norbert Wiener, whose theories helped lay the foundations of automation, make M.I.T. much more than a producer of management specialists. Ironically, both schools have also contributed to Red China's nuclear missile capability by training its missile expert, Tsien Hsue-shen (see THE WORLD), who earned his M.A. at M.I.T. and his Ph.D. at Caltech, where he rose to be a professor of jet propulsion...