Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...specific topics to be discussed have not yet been determined. Dakin said, but the group is considering a careful examination of five or six important scientific papers. Holton yesterday mentioned a study on nuclear physics by Enrico Fermi and a paper on relativity by Albert Einstein as possible topics...
...Enterprise has accounted for 20% more attack sorties than her conventional sisters, and at an operating cost only 3% higher. Thanks to the recent development of a fuel core that can perform for 13 years, the nuclear carriers of the future will be even more tactically revolutionary than their conventional counterparts. The most significant tribute to the concept of an atomic-powered surface fleet came this year when Defense Secretary Robert McNamara reversed his longtime opposition to additional nuclear carriers, requested another in his 1966-67 budget and announced that he planned to ask for two more later...
...censure motion by opposition Deputies who disagree with De Gaulle's tactics, French Premier Georges Pompidou delivered the most lucid exposition to date of the De Gaulle attitude toward NATO. Its remarkable contention: NATO is a U.S. device that in effect spares U.S. and Russian territory in any nuclear conflict by inviting a nuclear exchange "between the Atlantic and Poland's eastern border-that is, in Europe, a Europe destined for destruction...
...adoption in 1957 of the concept of massive and immediate atomic retaliation against any Russian attack-a strategic concept that France still strongly supports. Yet the U.S. has since shifted to the Kennedy-McNamara concept of a more flexible military response that does not necessarily begin with nuclear attacks on the enemy's territory. By that unilateral action, charged Pompidou, the U.S. has effectively imposed its new strategy on NATO even though "perhaps a majority of the allied military chiefs" still favor massive retaliation. It also makes matters, in Pompidou's view, more perilous for Europe...
...atomic arsenal is what has effectively guaranteed the peace for the past 15 years. Therefore, talk of integration of NATO forces is useless because no one is willing to integrate the only force that really counts, the atomic arsenal. "The U.S. has always kept 95% of its nuclear force out of NATO and kept absolute control of the other 5%." Because the U.S. thus controls the use and distribution of all NATO's nuclear arms, said Pompidou, NATO can never be truly European. "What's a European commander in chief without nuclear arms? A supernumerary...