Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...face a "long-drawn-out war." Indeed, said Halperin, Peking has now "urged on the Viet Cong the need to adopt a strategy of survival until the American invaders tire of the war and withdraw." China's leaders, he told the committee, are well aware that a U.S. nuclear attack would devastate their "modernized sector" and are determined not to provoke...
...extreme provocation, the U.S. maintained links with Indonesia and Ghana, thereby strengthening the anti-Communist forces that in recent weeks moved against Sukarno and Nkrumah. Personifying the U.S. posture in the world are the airmen of SAC flying their long patrols around the globe, the sailors of the U.S. nuclear submarines cruising for months in the service of immense, but immensely restrained power...
...also drawing to a close. The Air Force, which recovered the three H-bombs that fell on land, had finished scraping 1,500 cu. yds. of contaminated topsoil into steel drums, was preparing to ship them aboard an American freighter to the U.S. for burial in the Aiken, S.C., nuclear-disposal plot. To celebrate an unpleasant job well done, the Air Force brought in a band that tootled prettily as airmen began striking their tent city near Palomares...
Halperin -- whose book China and the Bomb was published last year -- said "there is no reason to believe that the Chinese want a nuclear war or are not as determined as any political leadership to avoid a nuclear attack if possible...
...criticized U.S. policy in giving nuclear weapons to friends and allies. He said this only increases the danger of proliferation. He cited West Germany as on "especially dangerous risk--the U.S. does not realise West Germany's militarist potential...