Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chinese periodicals, some smuggled out from remote provinces. The compulsive outpourings of Radio Peking and other internal radio stations are monitored by a string of sophisticated snooping devices on China's perimeter. Drone planes, high-flying U-2s and satellite cameras record roads, railways, steel mills, oil wells, nuclear plants, missile ranges and troop movements. U.S. Government analysts early spotted China's gaseous diffusion plant at Lanchow, the plutonium reactor at Paotow, and the atom-bomb test site at Lop Nor in the Taklamakan wastes of Sinkiang. They have predicted well in advance the timing of all three...
...Republican paper, the Times does not automatically endorse Republican candidates, and maintains a moderate stance. It has supported the nuclear test ban treaty, the sale of surplus grain to Russia, the 1964 Civil Rights Act. It was one of the first papers to attack the John Birch Society in an editorial written by Otis...
...recent action of the Senate Armed Services Committee in voting $168 million to begin work on the Nike-X missile defense system has raised some serious questions about America's defense policy in the nuclear age. Deployment of the Nike-X program, eventually costing between $10 and $20 billion, represents a shift in anti-ICBM policy which could throw the United States and Russia into yet another arms race if carried beyond limited defense...
...basic feasibility of the antimissile system. But the scope of that system remains in question. Though the purpose of the U.S. ICBM missile system is ostensibly defensive rather than offensive, this country has at present no anti-missile defense system. We have depended, since the beginning of the nuclear race, on the threat of retalliation to deter potential aggression. Both the U.S. and the USSR have relied on increasing offensive capacity to cause nuclear stalemate. Defensive systems such as Nike-X have been considered useless in view of bipolar balance, for the very practical reason that such a system would...
...however, the emergence of other nuclear powers (in particular Red China and France) has ended the era of pure bipolarity. It was this possibility of attack by the "Nth nation" that lead to the reversal of policy implicit in the Committee's decision. Military experts do not expect to create a defense system capable of protecting the U.S. against an all-out attack by the Soviet Union. But a system such as Nike-X would be very effective against a limited attack by an "Nth nation...